Analysis of Ireland
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
O WE have loved you through cold and rain
And pitiless frost,
Consuming our offering of blood and brain
Gladly again and again and again,
Though it all seemed lost,
Ireland, Ireland!
O we will fight, fight on for you till
Your anguish is past,
The wronged ones righted, the tyrants still. —
Though God has not saved you, yet we will,
At the last, at the last,
Ireland, Ireland!
O we will love you in warmth and light
And the happy day,
When you have forgotten the terrible night,
Standing proud and beautiful bright
For ever and aye,
Ireland, Ireland!
| Scheme | abacbDefeefDghggiD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111101 01001 010101001101 1001001001 11111 100100 111111111 11011 011100101 111111111 101101 100100 111110101 00101 11101001001 10101001 11001 100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 544 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 430 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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