This is an analysis of the poem A Lament For The Princes Of Tyrone And Tyrconnel that begins with:

O WOMAN of the piercing wail,
Who mournest o’er yon mound of clay ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcabcdefdeX XXXagbXehieh XhXghaejhejh ckecXeXhkchk celcelehlehl gehgehjfXjhe ihfihfjhgjhg ecmecmccbccX hejhejdmhdmh gnkXnkeaoeao hlcXlcbhlbhl kkXkkbbahbah kXeXbecXccgc jfijficbXXbe hedhedlkllkl bcabcabcebce cbhcbhfgefgeXhhehhe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000101 11011101 0111 11110101 11110101 1101 11010101 01100111 0100 11110101 11111111 1000 01010100 01011110 110 11010101 1101101 0110 11010110 01100101 0100 11111101 110101001 1101 11010111 01100101 0100 11011111 11110101 0101 11110101 110011101 1101 110100101 11011101 1111 11011101 01100101 1101 01110111 11011101 1101 11110111 11010111 11001 11010001 11011111 1101 11000101 10110101 0101 11010111 11110111 1101 110101001 0111001001 0101 11010111 11110111 1101 01110101 01011111 0101 11010101 11010001 1101 10110111 11000111 1000 11011101 101100111 1111 11110111 11111101 1111 01010001 11010100 1101 01010101 10000101 0101 11011101 11110101 0101 11111101 0101101 1101 01010111 11110101 0111 111101101 11100111 0101 11011001 110100101 0101 11010101 11110111 1101 01010101 01110111 0101 01101101 10010101 0101 11011101 11011101 0111 01010101 01011111 01001 011111010 010101001 0101 11001101 11011101 1101 01110101 01110111 11001 01010100 01100101 0101 01010110 11010111 1111 01010101 11111101 0101 1010100101 11110101 1101 01010101 01010111 110 01100101 110011100 1101 11111101 01000101 010010 01010101 01001001 01010 01010101 0101010 0111 11011000 111001101 0101 01010111 01110111 11001 01011101 01010001 1101 11011001 11010101 1111 11010101 11010001 0101 11010101 01010101 1101 11011101 11010101 1101 111011001 11011101 0101 11011101 11011101 1101 11111101 11011111 0101 11110101 11010111 0101 11111101 01011001 1101 11010111 11010101 1101 11000101 11010111 1101 11010101 11001001 1101 11111101 11110101 1111 10110101 11111101 1101 01010101 11010111 1101 11110101 01010101 0101 11110111 11011101 0101 01101101 11010111 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 210
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, from, would, and, one, of, their, who, in, so, to, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, from, and, their, thy, for, a, so are repeated.

    The author used the same words o, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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