This is an analysis of the poem The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes that begins with:

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ON the grey rock of Cashel the mind's eye... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aababcbcbXdedfafaggeeaaddaaeebbeeddddbbeeddhheebbeeaaeebbeecciibbjjkk X lelebebekikidmnmnononpeaeabXpiqrqrieieXdpdpeeeeakakmcmc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 69,1,55,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1011010011 1110110111 1011010001 1011101 1011110101 011000101001 111110 111101 0101101110 11101011101 010100 1011010 010001101001 11110110111 110111 101101 101101011001 0101011101 010111 110111 1101110111 1010110101 1110101 110101 1111010011 11010100111 111011 110011 1101011101 1011111101 0100101 0100101 1101111101 10111111101 110111 111111 100111101 1101110111 1111001 100101 1111111001 00010100011 111101 110101 0101011111 0101011101 111101 011111 1111111111 11110000111 111111 011111 1101010011 0101110101 1111001 110101 1101010101 0101010111 1010101 0011101 0100011100 1101001101 011111 110101 1101010001 1011100111 100101 010101 101001010 101001101 0010101 11011101 11010101 1010101 01110101 110010101 11011111 100100101 11110101 01010101 11010111 111110 1101 11011101 01110111 11101101 11101101 1111111010 11110101 111111010 01010100 010001101 110011101 11010101 1111100100 1101 11100 11010100 01010111 10011111 11110001 11110111 110101011 01010101 11011011 101010001 111101001 10110 11111 101100010 1010100111 110110110 111010001 1111000111 01000101 11111010 111100101 101000100 11100101 010100101 01001111 10110101 100011101 1111100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1420
  • Average number of words per stanza: 267
  • Amount of lines: 125
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i, that, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.

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