This is an analysis of the poem Stony Grey Soil that begins with:
O stony grey soil of Monaghan
The laugh from my love you thieved;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXab bcXc cdbd XbXb aeAe Xafa Xgfg Xhah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110100 01011110 110110110 1111101 11010111 11011110 101110010 10111110 111011010 1111001 010111010 00111011 1111010 010101 101110101 1111101 11011110 010111 110110100 1101101 10110010 10101111 111110101 11010001 01011010 1100111 01110110 1100101 1000100110 0101111 0010110100 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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