Analysis of The Coolun

James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950



Come with me, under my coat,
And we will drink our fill
Of the milk of the white goat,
Or wine, if it be thy will;
And we will talk until
Talk is a truble, too,
Out in the side of the hill,
And nothing is left to do,
But an eye to look into an eye
And a hand in a hand to slip,
And a sigh to answer a sigh,
And a lip to find out a lip:
What if the night be black
And the air on the mountain chill,
Where the goat lies down in her track
And all but the fern is still!
Stay with me under my coat,
And we will drink our fill
Of the milk of the white goat
Out on the side of the hill.


Scheme aBAbbcbcdedefbfbaBAb
Poetic Form Etheree  (35%)
Metre 1111011 0111101 1011011 1111111 011101 11011 1001101 0101111 111110111 00100111 00111001 00111101 110111 00110101 10111001 0110111 1111011 0111101 1011011 1101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 569
Words 136
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 431
Words per stanza (avg) 134
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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James Stephens

James Stephens was an Irish Republican and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin on 17 March 1858, later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, also referred to as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood by contemporaries. more…

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