This is an analysis of the poem Rise Ye! Rise Ye! that begins with:

Rise Ye! rise ye! noble toilers! claim your rights with fire and steel!
Rise ye! for the cursed tyrants crush ye with the hiron ’eel!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXBbXbXXXB ccddXXB eeffXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101011101011 11101101100101 111111100111111110 11101010111001111 111110010 11111010 1001 111110101010101 011010110101101001 111110101010101 111110101110101 111110010 11111010 1001 110010101010101 1011101111101001111 111110101010101 1010001011110111 11111010 111110010 1001 101111101111101 111010111010101 111110101110101 111110101000101 11111010 11111010 10011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 469
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • 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; ye, rise, with, toilers, lo are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words rise, lo are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines toilers is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word rise 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 rise connects the lines.

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  • summary of Rise Ye! Rise Ye!;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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