This is an analysis of ‘When all the others were away at Mass' by Seamus Heaney.

[from Clearances in memoriam M.K.H., 1911-1984]
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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X X XabbXXaa cddcaa
  • Stanza lengths: 1,1,8,6,
  • Metre: 01000100111 1 1101000111 1110111010 1101011111 110101010010 1101011101 1000100110 10111101010 011011110110 1101011011 110111011010 1100101110 10100110111 0101110101 1010011011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16