This is an analysis of the poem Children Of Lir that begins with:
WE woke from our sleep in the bosom where cradled together we lay:
The love of the dark hidden Father went with us upon our way. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd eeff ggbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011001011001011 0100110101010111 11101011011001011 11111001011001001 111010110011001001 01111011011001011 11001011011101011 101001010001101001 11011111011001011 01001001001001101 11001111101011001 110010010001001001 11001011011101101 01101001011101101 11101001101101001 11011111011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, our, and, of, , to, through are repeated.
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