Analysis of Weep On, Weep On
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
Weep on, weep on, your hour is past,
Your dreams of pride are o'er;
The fatal chain is round you cast,
And you are men no more.
In vain the hero's heart hath bled;
The sage's tongue hath warn'd in vain;
Oh, Freedom! once thy flame hath fled,
It never lights again!
Weep on -- perhaps in after days,
They'll learn to love your name,
When many a deed may wake in praise
That long hath slept in blame.
And when they tread the ruin'd isle,
Where rest, at length, the lord and slave,
They'll wondering ask, how hands so vile
Could conquer hearts so brave?
"'Twas fate," they'll say, "a wayward fate
Your web of discord wove;
And while your tyrants join'd in hate,
You never join'd in love.
But hearts fell off that ought to twine,
And man profaned what God had given;
Till some were heard to curse the shrine
Where others knelt in heaven!"
Scheme | AXAXBXBX CDCDEFEF GXGXHIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011 1111110 01011111 011111 01010111 01011101 11011111 110101 11010101 111111 110011101 111101 01110101 11110101 110011111 110111 11110101 111101 01110101 110101 11111111 01111110 11011101 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 842 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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