This is an analysis of the poem When The Irish Flag Went By that begins with:
’Twas Eight-Hour Day, and proudly
Old Labour led the way;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dcdcebeb efgfgdgd ceXeXbdbXedgddbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 111101 0101010 010101 11011111 111101 11011101 010111 1101010 110011 11001010 101101 11010100 110001 11111101 1010111 1101110 1101001 0101010 110101 11010100 011101 11011101 010111 1111010 111101 11110011 110111 11010101 010101 11010011 1010111 1111010 110111 1111010 110101 01001111 1100111 11111111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word by at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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