This is an analysis of the poem To Eoghan that begins with:
Will you gaze after the dead, gaze into the grave?--
Strain your eyes in the darkness, knowing it vain?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011100110001 11100101001 11100101101 01010111001 1111100111 11110101110 1101011111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word strain is repeated.
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