This is an analysis of the poem The Rock Of Cader Idris that begins with:
I LAY on that rock where the storms have their dwelling,
The birthplace of phantoms, the home of the cloud; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dXdXefef cgcgbhbh ieiebcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111011110 01101001001 010110110010 01001011011 1011011110010 01111011011 011011011010 111011000101 1110100101101 11111001111 1100010110011 111111001011 110110011110 11101010001 1110110010010 101101101011 111100011010 01011011001 1010011011110 111110001111 11110010010 01001111101 01111101100110 111111111111 111111110110 111010011110 110011010010 011010011010 111110010110 11101001001 111110110010 101111001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 410
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, their, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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