This is an analysis of the poem The Abbot Of Innisfallen that begins with:
The Abbot of Innisfallen
awoke ere dawn of day;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdedFaeaFcecghehggcgigjgjaja XgXgXcXcXjfjhiXikaca lmhmknXncaeXeklkaccXiXghgacXcabXjajaXcjccjgjicgclgcgibXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,20,56,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001000 011101 1001011 11101 0101010 111111 11001010 0100101 11001010 1011111 01001010 110011 11001010 1011101 1101010 010111 11011010 1011101 11101010 1010101 1101110 1011101 110111100 110101 11010110 1010101 1101111 110001 01011010 1010111 11101010 11101010 01001000 010101 1101110 111011 01010101 010111 0111010 1100111 0101010 010101 11101110 10101111 01010101 0101010 01001110 01011010 11111101 111101 1110101101 110101 11110010 110101 11110101 1100111 0111101 1110111 010100100 110101 10101110 010111 11001010001 11110001 11010001 110011 01000010 110111 1110110101 111101 11000100101 110111 0101110 11001110 1110101101 1101101 01010110 1101101 010010100 1101101 1011111 1010101 0100100100 0100101 1111010 11101011 11111010 1100110 1111010 010111 110110101 1101101 01111101 0101111 110010010 0101111 1111010 111111 101110 1001111 1100110 111111 01010101 0101101 11010010 011101 101010100 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1082
- Average number of words per stanza: 209
- Amount of lines: 108
- 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; and, he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, it, a 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bird is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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