This is an analysis of the poem Clare's Brigade that begins with:
Men of the old grievous battles, men of Clare's Brigade,
Do ye hear the troops marching through the land where ye are laid,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaA aaaA bbbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011010101001 11101101011111 1001101010111 10111010100 11100110101001 10010011110101 1011010101101 10111010100 1101111110101 1110010110101 110110110101 10111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, there are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ireland at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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