This is an analysis of the poem O'Bruaidar that begins with:
I will sing no more songs: the pride of my country I sang
Through forty long years of good rhyme, without any avail;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec dXdX fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111101011011 11010001011001 11111011101001 101101011011001 001011101111101 11101111001111 111001111001101 101111111011001 101101101101011 111100111001001 11011111111001 111111111111101 1101011001101 0010011001101001 001011101001001 111001011101011 1110110110011001 101011001001001 1110010110111001 111111101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, 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.
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- summary of O'Bruaidar;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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