Analysis of Had I A Golden Pound (After The Irish)
Francis Ledwidge 1887 (Slane) – 1917 (Boezinge)
Had I a golden pound to spend,
My love should mend and sew no more.
And I would buy her a little quern,
Easy to turn on the kitchen floor.
And for her windows curtains white,
With birds in flight and flowers in bloom,
To face with pride the road to town,
And mellow down her sunlit room.
And with the silver change we'd prove
The truth of Love to life's own end,
With hearts the years could but embolden,
Had I a golden pound to spend.
| Scheme | Abcb xdcd xacA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010111 11110111 011100101 101110101 01010101 110101001 11110111 0101011 01010111 01111111 110111010 11010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 432 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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