This is an analysis of the poem King Cahal Mór Of The Wine-Red Hand that begins with:

I WALKED entranced
Through a land of Morn: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaabaXbcdbC ebdebdXfcdfC XfgfXgdfcdfC ghighidfcdfC jebjebdbcdbC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 10101 010101101 1111 10101 110101011 10001 00101 111101101 10101 11001 0101000111 1011 11101 010111101 1101 11111 110011101 1101 00101 010100111 10001 1001 0101000111 11110 110010 1011111101 1101 01010 11010011 11101 1111 10100101101 00101 1000 0101000111 1101 10101 010100101 1101 10111 010110101 1111 10101 010110101 1101 10001 0101000111 10111 1101 11001111001 1001 11111 010110100 01101 00101 110100101 11101 00111 0101000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; clime, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word hand at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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