This is an analysis of the poem Baile And Aillinn that begins with:

ARGUMENT. Baile and Aillinn were lovers, but Aengus, the
Master of Love, wishing them to he happy in his own land... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba c cddeeffaaee ddggaaccXhaaffiicc iiaajjbbijddiibbeeXdkXffccaaXaXXlXmmnnbbijffaaccaaddbb ijaaooddaammiii dXiiXjaapqXnhcqqmmaaaaddiXllggiiffggrrjiiiqqggppjjccjiaaddaajXXjaammijcciidddmmmmccbbffccjiiddaabb ookXccmmXq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,11,18,54,15,98,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011100101100 100110001100011 0101101010001011 111010111 11010101 110110101 01110101 10101011 1110101 11110001 10111101 11110101 00111111 01110111 100101011 11000101 01011111 10111011 10111111 1110111 1101101 11010001 01011111 01011101 01010010 11111100 11111111 1110101 11111101 111011101 111111001 111010001 111010111 11110101 10011101 11110011 01010001 11010011 11111101 11010100 01011101 11111111 11011110 01100101 11011101 01011111 110110101 10011001 01110011 11001111 110111001 1101101 01110110 10010001 11111100 111101010 01000111 110010101 1101101001 111100101 11110101 01110111 01100111 01111101 11010101 1111110 11010111 11110011 010101111 10101101 10110100 10011101 1010100101 10111001 111010111 11000101 101010101 01010001 01110101 001010101 11001101 11110111 111111001 11110101 10010101 010111111 1110100111 11011101 110111000 10011100 11010101 10111001 10110101 111100111 01010101 11110111 01010101 11110101 11101110 1101111 11110101 11010111 11111111 11111101 100010111 11010101 10110111 10011110 11000111 111100101 11010011 11110001 01010101 11001100 01001100 10110100 10010111 11111111 111010101 0101100 010010101 1110101 10110101 11011101 1110101 11111101 11111011 11001101 11010011 11011111 01011111 11110111 01110101 01101001 11111101 11010101 0110101001 11110111 11110101 11011101 101100101 10010101 11101101 11110111 010010011 11010111 001110111 11110111 11011101 10110101 11001101 01010101 11100111 01010011 1010011011 10110011 111100101 11111101 10111111 11110101 10111011 11000111 011111001 11110111 00101010 110110 11010100 01010111 10111111 11011101 100010101 11111100 11001111 11010111 10111001 11010011 11001111 0010101101 11100101 11000111 10110011 1111101 11110101 11010011 11100101 110010101 110010101 11011011 010100011 011100111 11011101 01110101 10110101 00110101 11000101 01011101 10010101 11110101 11110011 10010101 10110111 11111111 001010010 0101110100 101101100 111110111 110100101 11111101 11011101 11011101 10111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 929
  • Average number of words per stanza: 178
  • Amount of lines: 211
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had, he, and, of, that, wise, or, one, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, with, in, or, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wise is repeated).

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