This is an analysis of the poem Have We Done Well For Ireland? that begins with:
O Country, writhing in thy chain
With fierce, wild efforts to be free,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdXeefcfcggaaeehghgaahheEffff eeiieEdgdgccccaacfcfjjeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,26,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011 01110001 110101001 01110101 11010011 01010001 01011111 10110101 11011101 11011100 11010101 01010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11011101 01010100 11101111 01011100 11110101 11000101 111100111 100010101 10100101 11001001 01010101 01111101 11110011 11111100 110011101 11011111 11010111 01010000 11011111 11010101 100100101 11010111 11110011 11111100 11111101 11010101 11010101 11010111 01011111 01111101 11100001 11110001 01110101 11011011 11110111 10011101 11010101 111100101 11010101 11010101 11011101 010100001 11010011 01110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1042
- Average number of words per stanza: 192
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in, s, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, by, and are repeated.
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