This is an analysis of the poem Legend Of The Corrievrechan that begins with:
Prince Breacan of Denmark was lord of the strand
And lord of the billowy sea;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abaX cbcb abab cbcb dbdb efef Efef agaG Efef agaG efef bbbb hdhd aiai jkjk dada kakaXifif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11001111001 11001001 100111001 1111100 010110101 100101 10100101 1010100 101100101 1101001 100100101 1111011 010011111 1001001 110100101 111111 1111111 0111001 11111111 1101100 110110101 0111001 110111111 01110101 101001101001 10100101 111100101 1100101 0101010101 011101 0111111101 10100111 00110111111 0011010010 0010111101 01010010 0101010101 111101 0110111101 1010111 110011111 01011010 110101001 01010010 110100111 1101001 111100101 1101101 011110111 1111101 1110010101 0111001 0101101101 010101 11100101001 0101001 01011101 0111001 011110111 10100111 11100101 1011101 110100101 110101 1101110101 010001 100100111 101111 110110101 010001 11101101 000101 01111111 110111 010100101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 76
- 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; of, lord, and, cable, hair, he, it, round are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, he, the, round are repeated.
The author used the same words he, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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