This is an analysis of the poem The Children Of Lir that begins with:
Out upon the sand-dunes thrive the coarse long grasses;
Herons standing knee-deep in the brackish pool;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefXaXa gagagXgg afaXeheh aiaicaca gagagjgj gkgkclXX gbgbelXX ghghglXX Xmemgfgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101110 10101100101 1010111011010 10101010111 111010101110 100001110101 101111111010 10101110111 1010100011010 10111011111 1001010101010 10101010101 101011101110 10001110101 111111111111 10101100101 111110111110 100001110100 111010101010 10101100101 101110101110 10101000101 111010101010 10101001110 101111001010 10011001001 101010100110 10111010100 101010111010 00101010110 0011100101010 10111010101 101111101110 10101010101 100011101110 11111010101 001110111110 10111010111 111110101010 10101000111 101111001010 10101011101 011110100110 10101000111 101111101110 10101000101 111010111110 10101110111 101010101010 11101011101 101011100010 10101011101 111010101010 10101110101 1111101111100 10110011110 10110111010 10101010101 1010110001010 10101011101 111011111010 10111001101 1011101110101 10110011110 10111111010 11111011101 111011101110 11111000101 101010111110 1110011111001 111110101110 10110011110 1100111010010 10111010101 1011101010010 100101100101 11111101110 10111110001 101110101110 10011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, saith, ', of, her, human, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gone, never, and are repeated.
The author used the same word 'sister at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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