This is an analysis of the poem The Woman Who Went To Hell [an Irish Legend] that begins with:
Young Dermod stood by his mother's side,
And he spake right stern and cold;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcb dedX faga hibi ajgj gkbX bchc jgag bieX ablb acdX ebdX gbab bdmX mXab hdgd lXhc jhdh fbgb nXge nXmj dggg hjnj biaX cbab ccXX bbab nXfh bjaj bjcj aobo ccac bhah caja bXae XbXX obeX eaiX Xala fadX kjaj ahdX dlbl aXaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101 1111111 111111111 1101101 111111111 1111101 010111101 1101101 010100111 1110101 111100101 1100101 0101111101 1111011 01011101111 1111101 111101001 1101101 110100111 1100111 111110101 1110101 110111101 0101111 110110101 1110111 1011101111 11111010 011101101 1100111 110010111 1101101 110101101 0100101 1101110111 10101111 1011101101 0100111 110110101 011111101 110100101 1111111 110100101 1100111 111111011 1110101 110100101 1111011 111100101 1011111 1111111111 1110101 110110101 0101101 1011100101 1011001 010101111 1011111 110100011 00100101 101001011 1010111 010101101 1000111 101001111 1010101 1110011100 0100101 101001101 0100110 1100110111 0110111 111100101 1110101 110111111 1100101 1011001010 1110101 010110111 1111101 010111101 1101111 111110101 1110101 111101111 110110010 101110111 11011101 101001111 0101111 110111110 1100111 110111111 1100111 010101111 1101111 011100101 11100101 1011111111 11000110 010110101 1010101 110010111 1101100 101100111 1100101 110110100 11001010 011100101 1011101 1110110111 1101101 010111111 1101111 010110101 1111111 101100111 1111001 110110101 1101001 011100101 1010111 110110101 1110101 110100111 1100111 010111101 0110001 101100101 1110111 111100111 0100101 111110101 0011011 111110111 1100101 111110101 1110111 110101111 1101001 010111011 0111111 110101001 1100101 111101101 1111101 001111110 1010101 101101101 1101111 011111111 1111101 110010101 1110001 1110101101 11001010 110101111 0101101 110110101 1110111 110100111 111111111 110101111 1100101 110110101 1110111 1001111011 0011101 110101111 1010111 110110111 1101111 101100111 1101110 011100111 1100111 101100101 11001100 110100101 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 45
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 180
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, she, ', once, her, drink, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, he, ', a are repeated.
The author used the same words now, seven, the, and, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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