This is an analysis of the poem The Famine In Ireland that begins with:
They shall not perish! Not if help can save
Our hunger-stricken brethren from the grave!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhccddggiijjXeaaddggccddkkl ljjccllccjjbbmmcckkiikX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010111 1101010001 11110010101 1111110111 1111010101 11010100101 1111110011 1011010010 1101010101 1111010101 1100010101 1010010111 1111011001 1101010101 1111010101 0100110001 1101110101 0111011101 1101110100 0101010101 1011010101 1111110001 1100010101 1101010001 11011111001 11010011001 11110001000 1101110001 11110110001 1101110101 1111110111 0111010101 11010111010 01011100110 01010110101 0111111001 1111010101 1111001101 0111000101 1101111101 1111010111 1101110001 1101010101 1111011111 11110111001 01010010001 1111010111 0001110001 1101110111 1101110001 1101011101 1101001101 1100010101 0111110001 1111111011 0111110111 1011110101 11010100101 1011110101 01001011111 1011111101 1101010101 11010100101 1001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1416
- Average number of words per stanza: 251
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; not, to, for, whose, our are repeated.
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- summary of The Famine In Ireland;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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