This is an analysis of the poem Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan that begins with:
LONG they pine in weary woe - the nobles of our land -
Long they wander to and fro, proscribed, alas! and banned;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX XXXX aaaX XbbX bbbX cccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101010011 1110011010111 10100100110101 11100010001001100 11001011100001 1010101110100 1101110110101 001111101001100 1111101111111 1110111010001 1011101110101 0011010101001100 10100010100010 1000100011101 1010111010111 1101010001001100 1110111110001 1110101010101 1000111010111 0101010011001100 111011111001 11101001110111 1111101010111 1111010101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, her, of, he, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words long, he are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word houlahan at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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