This is an analysis of The Last Irish Grievance by William Makepeace Thackeray.
As I think of the insult that's done to this nation,
Red tears of rivinge from me fatures I wash,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXX XcXc XdXd aXaX ecec fbfX gXgX XXXg hihi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110001110010 110100110011 1010010011000 0110100101 11111011100 11101001001 1101001010100 11011011001 111010011100 11101001011 1110010010010 11001001111 1100100110010 110110110110 01111110010 00100010010010 1010010110010 11001011001 111010110010 11101111001 111110011111 11111100001 101110010011 11000110101 110111010111 11101101001 111010111110 11101011010 111010010110 11001001110 110111110010 110111001101 101010110010 1110101001 110110110010 01011011001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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