This is an analysis of the poem Welsh History that begins with:
We were a people taut for war; the hills
Were no harder, the thin grass...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacbXdbXedaXacaXaffaaXdcaaae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011101 0110011 10110101 1111 111011001 11100101 010111010 10111001 00111001 00110001 1111101 101100101 111010001 010101110 100101110 10111011 010010111 101000011 01111110 1110001 01010111 100101001 010101110 01011111 011111110 100101111 1111010011 1001011001 001101001 111100011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1073
- Average number of words per stanza: 203
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Welsh History;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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