This is an analysis of Innocence by Patrick Kavanagh.

They laughed at one I loved-
The triangular hill that hung…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabaXXaXc bbcd XXXbdb
  • Stanza lengths: 10,4,6,
  • Metre: 111111 00100111 1001111 111101010010 00101101101 111111101 00111101 010111 1100111001 111110110100 1111100101 0101100101 110111 1111 11111111 111101 1110010 10010 1101 011111110010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

her, i, age

Anaphora

i

Anadiplosis

i