Analysis of The Wake Of Bloody Sunday



No dogs
Bark
Nor people
Smile.

Broken
Hearts
And
Silence
For
The dead.

A city sobs,
A nation
Weeps,
Because of
A peoples loss


Scheme XXXX AXXXXX XAXXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Metre 11 1 110 1 10 1 0 10 1 01 0101 010 1 011 0101
Characters 115
Words 24
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 7
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by ancomanach on March 10, 2016

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Liam Ó Comáin

An Irish poet now living in Derry City but originally from Limavady in County Derry in the north of the Island. more…

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