This is an analysis of The Famine Year by Lady Jane Wilde.
Weary men, what reap ye? —Golden corn for the stranger.
What sow ye? —Human corses that wait for the avenger.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXccdd eebbeeff gg eeddee ffhheeii jjeekkjX ddXeeedd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,2,6,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1011111011010 11110101110010 10110001110010 1010111010101010 10101010111111 111101000011001 110100101011101 11010111110101 10101110111010 111101011101010 1111101011111010 1110101011101110 11011111111101 1111011110011 101110111110101 010111011111101 101010111111111 111100101010101 110111001101001 11111011100 1111010011101 111101001010101 1010101001110010 1010111001101010 111001100110111 101001010110001 100110111111111 101011100100111 111111111101 110100101010111 10101000010111 10101111011111 111110111110001 111101011101 0110110011010 111101011101110 001111101011001 01010101010101 1111100101110111 01011100110100 111010011010111 11011101011111 101100101100101 111001011011100 00101010011100010 101000100101110 01010100101111 101111100010011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 51
Repeated words/phrases
what, we, and, bread, our, dying, in
Anaphora
we, better, dying