This is an analysis of the poem Shancoduff that begins with:
My black hills have never seen the sun rising,
Eternally they look north towards Armagh....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXX XXXbX XXbaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010110 01001110110 1111010110 10011111110 111010010 111011001 10110010010 111111110100 00101111001 001100110100 01011001010100 101010100001001 11111010101 101011111010 010111011010 11101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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 author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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