This is an analysis of the poem Ireland Shall Rebel that begins with:
WHILE tyrants rule the land,
Beneath the Irish skies;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcDDD ebebbdbDDD afaffdfDDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 010101 110101 011101 111101 010101 100111 1100010 1010 1100010 111001 110101 110101 010111 110101 010111 000100 1100010 1010 1100010 010101 110001 110111 110101 111101 011101 0100111 1100010 1010 1100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; rebel is repeated.
The author used the same word while at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rebel is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word rebel at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase rebel connects the lines.
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