This is an analysis of the poem The Wake Of Tim O'Hara that begins with:

TO the Wake of O’Hara
Came company; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcXbddeeffggga ahihfhddddffiiiA afafjfcciiffdddA bkakbkddiiffhhhA alalXliimmXXnXnA aioidinnjjddmmmAXdiiioiiiccjjdddA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,16,16,33,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010010 1100 111010 1101 001110 00100 1011101101 110100101 1101001101 0101011101 1110101101 1011001001 1010010111 1110111 1100101101 00101010 1010010 1101 110010 1101 101110 0101 01010101 110101101 111110101 111101111 101110011 010010111 1100101011 100100110 1110100101 10101010 1010010 1011 1010010 1111 101110 0111 11010111 00101101001 1101101111 1110100101 10100101 111110111 1010111 110101011 1100101011 10101010 01010 0111 110010 01011 11110 0101 1111001101 100100101 1111001101 1101110101 111101111 101001111 1010110101 1010101101 10101101101 10101010 1110010 011001 1010010 1111 001110 1011 010101101 10111011001 100100101 0100101001 010010111 111011111 010101101 0100100100 101011101 10101010 1010010 1111 001010 0101 110100 0101 10101100111 110110001 1100100101 110100101 1011101111 10110100101 100101111 011100101 0101001001 10101010 01010 1101 10010 1101 1110010 1100 11110111 1111011001 1011111011 11101100111 1110100101 101010101 010110111 010100101 10100111111 10101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 574
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • 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; and, of, be, d are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hara, d are repeated).

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

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