This is an analysis of the poem Cashel Of Munster, From The Irish that begins with:

I'D wed you without herds, without money or rich array,
And I'd wed you on a dewy morn at day-dawn gray; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXa bbaa cXcc ddee ffaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101101101101 1111101011111 11010011111101 010110111011010 1 1110100111 0101110010101 11111111101 010111111111101 11111001111 111111101001 10111111110 110101011111 1111111100101 11110110111 1010111111111011 11100110001011 111111101011 11111111100111 11010101010111 11111010110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, not, and, my, no, i, o, girl are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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