This is an analysis of the poem The Death of Cuchulain that begins with:
The harlot sang to the beggar-man.
I meet them face to face,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXcdccadaXXde efbfaggg faXabada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 110101 10100101 111101 0111011011 1011101 110010111 110111 1111110 111101 01110011 110101 1111110 111110 11011101 110111 111110111 110100 1100110 011100 1110010 111111 11100101 111111 1101010 110101 111110101 010001 01010101 1100101 11011010 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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