This is an analysis of Homesick In Old Age by Aogán Ó Rathaille.
He climbed to his feet in the cold light, and began
The decrepit progress again, blown along the cliff road,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaX XbX Xcd abd eXc Xbd eXX
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 110010011101 00101101101011 10100101010 010111111 0100100101001 0111110101010 101110110 1000011110 1001011111 111111001 101010011 11010111011 101011101 0101001101110 111110111 11110101110 110111101010 1111100101011 11001011101001 11011010111 0101011101000101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
your, i, my
