This is an analysis of the poem The Old College that begins with:
Of the Irish, Paris
THE Lombards having gone back to their land,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXdXeXXcc bcXeXdcXXdXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010 0101011011 1111010101 0111111100 10000010101 1111010101 01010101000 11001111110 010100110 1001010100 1111011101 11100111 1101011011 11010101010 0100011000 110111101010 0110100010010 1101001101 10010101010 100100 10010111110 1001001100 010111101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 461
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines land is repeated).
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- summary of The Old College;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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