This is an analysis of the poem Colum-Cille’s Farewell To Ireland that begins with:
ALAS for the voyage, O High King of Heaven,
Enjoined upon me, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XcXc dcdc eaea fgfgXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010111010 01011 1111011010100 10101 110010010110 11001 10100101011010 01001 01001001110 01101 010010110010 01001 010110010110 11001 1010010010110 11001 111110011010 11111 110110110110 01111 1110110010111 11011 11111001111 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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