This is an analysis of the poem Shane O’neill’s Cairn that begins with:
TO U. J.
When you and I on the Palos Verdes cliff...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXXacXdXbXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 011 11111010101 11110011 1111101011010 001001110 10111111101010 10100101 10110110001 01111011 01011001001010 010111100 110001111011 001111010 00110010001010 110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
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