This is an analysis of the poem Cuchulain's Fight With The Sea that begins with:
A man came slowly from the setting sun,
To Emer, raddling raiment in her dun,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbX cdd bbX XX abX aaeeX bX dX fX X aX fX fX gdhhbX eeffffffbbiiX hhbX aX bbbbX X bXbjjh X X XcbbeeaabXkkXgfbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,3,2,3,5,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,6,13,4,2,5,1,6,1,1,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111000101 0101010001 111011100111 1101010111 111111010100 1101010101 1101110001 1001001101 11001010111 10101110101 11010101010 1001101110 11111101010 0111011111 0101111101 101011101010 1011011001101 1101011101 10010101001 11010110011 01010101010 10111010111 110010 1000101 110100110010 10010011101 11010101010 101110001010 10111011101 11010 1001101 11111101010 10101111101 111111011100 1111001100 01111010001 11110110111 1111110001 1101111111 11011011110 0111011001 1011110111 1101010001 10101010101 1101010001 1101011101 1100011101 0011010101 11100110111 01010010101 11101110011 11101011001 1111110 1111 1111111101 1011111111 11011011110 10011010101 01011101110 1011000101 1100111111 1111110111 1111101101 111111101100 110110110100 10101110101 111100 010101 1101101001 11111010111 111 1001110100 100011010010 1011011111100 1101010101 0111011001 1100111101 1101101101 0101010111 1100010011 1001011111 11100001111 111101010 1101110111 1001010100 11110100010 0101001100 110111 1001 1101000111 0101010111 1100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, his, he, you, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
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