This is an analysis of the poem Daniel Henry Deniehy that begins with:
TAKE the harp, but very softly for our brother touch the strings:
Wind and wood shall help to wail him, waves and mournful mountain-springs. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXbeeaXffggaa eehhiiffhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101110101110101 1111101111101001 101110101011111 1010111101111101 101010101011111 101011101111101 1011101010000101 101010101110101 111010101011101 101110101010001 111111101011101 101010100010101 111011111011101 101110101011000 001110110010101 101011101011101 101010101001101 1010100101010111 100010101010101 101110101100001 0100111000111101 001110101010001 010011101011101 101110100010101 1010101010011101 101010101010101 101111101111111 101000100110101 101011101010101 100011111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 991
- Average number of words per stanza: 176
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, where, of, by are repeated.
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