This is an analysis of the poem Two Songs From The Irish that begins with:
I.
(Is truagh gan mise i Sasana)...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bbcb ccac X d dcdc aeae afaf gbgb bhbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 01111100 101001010 101010101 10010010 10100111 01010010 00101001101 11111111 101101 1 1110110111 0111001 0110111 01001001 10101001 01111011 1001001 11101101 111111011 111111 101111 1110101 10111011 110100111 011111101 11111001 11011001 111011101 1110011101 111101111 111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she's are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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