This is an analysis of the poem In Connemara that begins with:

WITH eyes all untroubled she laughs as she passes,
Bending beneath the creel with the seaweed brown, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010111110 10010100111 110011101010 111010100101 11010011010 10011110101 110011101010 1111010110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • 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; with, as, her, are repeated.

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