This is an analysis of the poem The Host Of The Air that begins with:

O'DRISCOLL drove with a song
The wild duck and the drake... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaacdccECEbfgfgchcXbbbgdgdhfcfXdbdbabadECE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101001 011101 00110101 00111 11110111 1010011 1100111 01001 1111111 0101001 11011011 11011011 11111111 1110101 11001010 0011011 01010011 1100111 10111111 101111 11011101 0100101 0111011 001000101 01101101 11001001 1111001 00111 11001011 1110101 01111001 0100101 11001001 0100111 101101101 0100111 0101001 1100101 11111111 0110101 11111001 0101001 11011011 11011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1352
  • Average number of words per stanza: 275
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, piping, and, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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