This is an analysis of Shancoduff by Patrick Kavanagh.

My black hills have never seen the sun rising,
Eternally they look north towards Armagh.…

Browse poems by Patrick Kavanagh

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXX XXXbX XXbaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,6,
  • Metre: 11111010110 01001110110 1111010110 10011111110 111010010 111011001 10110010010 111111110100 00101111001 001100110100 01011001010100 101010100001001 11111010101 101011111010 010111011010 11101111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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