This is an analysis of the poem Easter, 1916 that begins with:

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedeadfD ghghbhXhiciccgcgjgjgfdfD dkdkclclkgkgmhmh igigkckchnhncXcmciciadfD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,24,16,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101101 1001010 01011011 0110010 111001001 1011001 11100111 011001 1101111 00101101 010010 01010101 10101111 1111001 111100 01001001 110101 010000 010100 010111 111110 111100 11010 011101 11111 01001011 1100001 11111001 11000101 1101101 0101111 0101001 1111101 0111111 11101001 1110101 00100100 11101001 01100 01001001 1011001 1101101 010001 0100101 0111001 0100111 0101001 0110111 01101101 1001101 0111101 10110010 0110111 110111 0110111 0100101 110101 1101001 111001 1010111 0101011 1010101 111111 111111 100111 111111 10101101 110111 1110111 111101 0111111 1101101 0100111 1101001 100101 110011 110100 010101 111100 01001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 575
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, so, the, for are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word born at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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