This is an analysis of Bean Sléibhe Ag Caoineadh A Mhac (A Woman Of The Mountain Keens Her Son) by Patrick Henry Pearse.
Grief on the death, it has blackened my heart:
lt has snatched my love and left me desolate,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXX XXXb acdb dbdc bcdX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1101011011 11111111100 01110101001011 1010001011110 1110100010 011011000 01111010010 01001111011 1101111111 1101111110 11111111101 11011001011 1110101110 1010111101 11011110010 10111110110 1101010001 0111110010 111010111010 1111010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
my, i, and, your
Anaphora
the, i
