This is an analysis of the poem A New Song To An Old Tune that begins with:
SONS of Shannon, Tamar, Trent,
Men of the Lothians, Men of Kent,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccdX bbeeffdX ddggggdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 10010101 1010111 100101010 10011111 10110111 110100101 10011110 1011101 11010101 101100111 100100101 10010101 10010001 010100101 10011110 100101100 11010111 011010111 111011111 111011111 11011111 110100101 10011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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