This is an analysis of the poem The Winding Banks Of Erne that begins with:

Adieu to Belashanny!
where I was bred and born;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaaacaXdedbaXA edfdgcechXabgXXA dijiXfXfadbdaada ekgXXlglXieifaga iafakeXeimdmnakA iXgocbhbeaeaiaba efpfhanabaaaaaXA egeXofdfpjhjdaea agXgaXkaXfXfiaXA agcgafnfdiXifaXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101000 111111 11111101 111111 01010101 1100101 11010101 110111 1101110 110111 11110101 110101 1111101 1110101 0101000 1010101 1111010 110101 101010001 010001 01110101 110011 11111101 100111 1111110 1100101 10101010 100101 11110101 1100111 0101000 1010101 01000101 010001 11011010 010101 01000100 110101 0101010 0100101 11010101 010101 01010101 110101 11011111 011101 01010101 010101 11011001 101111 01111101 0010100 01000111 110101 11010101 110001 01000101 111101 10111101 111101 11011111 010101 010101001 110101 11101001 110111 01110101 1010101 01010101 110101 01011101 110101 01010101 010101 11110111 110101 01110101 111111 11111101 1010101 110100101 0010010 110011111 110101 01010101 111101 0111110 1010101 0111110 1010101 11010101 010101 11111001 010111 11110101 0010101 01011101 011101 01011101 1101101 01011111 010101 11011101 010101 01010111 111100 11011101 010111 01010101 110101 0101000 1010101 0101010 110101 101010111 111111 01001111 010111 110011101 110111 011111001 0101010 11010101 0101110 0101011 011101 0111010 1010101 11000101 011001 10101110 1111101 01111101 011100 01010111 1101001 11111100 010111 11101110 110001 11011101 110101 0101000 1010101 01000101 111101 11010001 110001 11111111 111101 110111001 111101 11011101 110101 011110011 111101 1001011 110001 01101000 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 478
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • 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; or, she, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, the, from, six, and, i are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word erne at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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