This is an analysis of the poem The Ancient Speech that begins with:
A Gaelic bard they praise who in fourteen adjectives
Named the one indivisible soul of his glen;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacaaaaXaa bbXaaccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111011100 101101001001 111011011101100 01010010001 1111101111010 0101010100 10110101 110111 11011010101 101110101111 110111010111 010111011110 0101 101101110100110 10101101 1011011001001 10001011101 11111111 10011101111 11111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word songs is repeated.
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- summary of The Ancient Speech;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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