This is an analysis of Inniskeen Road: July Evening by Patrick Kavanagh.

The bicycles go by in twos and threes -
There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcbcbcdd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0100110111 10101010101 1101110100 10111110001 111110101 0101011111 1111011101 0111010001 11110010101 01010101010 1101010101 01011100110 0101010111 01111100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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