This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Who Died For Ireland that begins with:
The dead who died for Ireland!
Oh, these are living words...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbcaba AdadXebe AbcbcfXf aaeaXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111100 111101 01010100 010101 1101110 110101 010010100 011101 01111100 010101 11111101 110101 01010111 101101 11010101 111101 01111100 110111 010100111 111101 11110101 111111 1111110 1010101 01110100 010111 10110101 110111 11111110 1010101 001111100 011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; who, how, we, could, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, who, how, be are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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