This is an analysis of the poem O'Brien Of Ara that begins with:
Tall are the towers of O'Ceinneidigh
Broad are the lands of MacCarrthaigh...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXABXXCX dedeXXcX fgfgXXcX bXXXXXcX XXaXXXcX XXABXXCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001000 11010100 101110101 11010010 100100110 1001010 101111101 0110111 110101111 10110010 101110100 11010110 100100110 1001010 101101101 0110111 100101101 10010010 10111001 10010010 100100110 1001010 101101101 0110111 1111001110 1110110 0101100100 10011110 100100110 1001010 11101101 0110111 11011110 11010010 111100111 111010110 100100110 1001010 10111101 0110111 1101001000 11010100 101110101 11010010 100100110 1001010 101111101 0110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word failte at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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