This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of O'Ruark, Prince Of Breffni that begins with:
The valley lay smiling before me,
Where lately I left her behind; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababab cbcbdede dfXfghgh gdXdXfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110011 11011001 11101101101 11001011 111011111 11101001 1110010101 11001001 110010110 10011011 110011110 11011111 111011110 11011001 10111100110 110001101 110110010 11001111 111010010 11101101 111010010 010110011 1110010110 11011111 010010010 11001001 110010100 11011001 110011010 111001001 111010110 11001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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