This is an analysis of the poem Who Will Show Us Any Good? that begins with:
Beautiful Ireland! Who will preach to thee?
Souls are waiting for lips to vow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb acac XdeXd fgfg ghgghh ijijXcacak Xgeg gdgdd lele eaeak cjcj cdcXd gege imXmm chchXclcll ghgh lalak Xeie ljljX cjXj ieieeXiaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,6,10,4,5,4,5,4,5,4,5,10,4,5,4,5,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010010101 11101101 1011111101 10101111 01010111 10010111111 10111101 1101101110111 111000101 1001001000 10111101 11011011010 1001011100 110101100 10010010111 10110111 101101110111 11111111 10010010010 11100101 10101111110 1101011010 10101101 110111101 1110010010 11111010 10110010010 10101101 1 11001011010 10100110 1101101010 11110111 1100111100 11101011100 010110101 111001010110 11110101 110111010110 11101101 01001001110 1011101101 110100101 11011110110 101100111 11110011010 11111101 10011010010 1010100101 101001001010 011010110 10010100 11000001010 10101001 100111110 110100101 1010010010 11100111 0111011010 111101001 0101000101 1010011010 100101111 1101001010 100100101 01111101010 101001001 1101101100 10101001 110010101 1010010010 10010101 1011001110 11100101 1 1111101010 110111011 1101011010 110100101 0100010101 11011111010 100101101 1011101110 100100101 11011101010 110101110 1101001010 110100101 100100100 1101101011 1101110101 11110110110 110100101 1001111010 101100101 00111101010 10010101 1011001100 1101011010 10100111 1011011100 111111101 1010111110 10101011 1010110010 10111010 101101101 11010010010 10100110 11011110010 110001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, of, by, irish are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, irish are repeated.
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