This is an analysis of the poem Alternative Song For The Severd Head In "The King Of The Great Clock Tower" that begins with:
SADDLE and ride, I heard a man say,
Out of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XXAbbbCddAeeXCffAgggC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111011 101101100 10101001110 11101001 11010101 01010101 1011111101 110111011 1001111001 10101001110 11110111 111111101 11010100 1011111101 10010100 11101101 10101001110 11011101 011110101 0111100101 1011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 819
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.
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