To Ireland In The Coming Times by William Butler Yeats: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To Ireland In The Coming Times that begins with:

Know, that I would accounted be
True brother of a company... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccddeeffgghhiXeejjkklLiimmdDeellaannlLabjjmmdD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11110100 11000100 11010101 10110111 10110100 01011101 00110001 011101101 11010101 11010111 01000101 11011001 11110101 01010111 110101001 0101010 11110101 01010100 01011101 11111101 01010001 11010101 101010101 01110011 110010001 01110111 11110101 11010111 11010100 10011101 110101001 01010101 11111111 01110111 01110111 01010011 11110111 110011101 11010111 01110011 11010110 01010100 11111111 11110111 11110011 11001101 11111100 10011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1578
  • Average number of words per stanza: 301
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, i, my are repeated.

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