This is an analysis of the poem O’hussey’s Ode To The Maguire that begins with:
Where is my chief, my master, this bleak night, mavrone?
O cold, cold, miserably cold is this bleak night for Hugh!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb cddc Xeef fggf heei cccc cffc fddf cccc effe beeb faaf hXgi fXhf XXceec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101111001110 11110001001111 0100100101101111 10100101 11101111101 100100111110111 0100111010111011 101101001 110001010010 0110010010111011 10010111011101 01110101 1101001100111 1101001010001001 11001101011111 01111101 110011011101 10100111011101 1001001000101 010111110 001101011001 10010011001001 1101101100100100 01011111 1011110101101 1000010101011001 1101011110101001 01001001 110101011100 11000101001101 11010110100101 11011110 10111100100001 101101010100011 11110011011111 11110011 010101010001 01010110010011 011101110101 11010101 011100011111 1011010100111001 010111010010111 10111101 111111010111 11010101011101 11011011010001 01011101 110110111101 0111010101001 100100101110001 110111010 111101011001 11110101011101 01100111011101 01000111 10 1110111011101 11011101011101 1010000111001111 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (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; cold, he, tho, his, and, thoughts, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tho, should, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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