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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