Analysis of “From, that fair land and drear land in the South”
John Boyle O'Reilly 1844 (Dowth) – 1890 (Boston)
From, that fair land and drear land in the South,
Of which through years I do not cease to think,
I brought a tale, learned not by word of mouth,
But formed by finding here one golden link
And there another; and with hands unskilled
For such fine work, but patient of all pain
For love of it, I sought therefrom to build
What might have been at first the goodly chain.
It is not golden now: my craft knows more
Of working baser metal than of fine;
But to those fate-wrought rings of precious ore
I add these rugged iron links of mine.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 1111011001 1111111111 1101111111 1111011101 0101001101 1111110111 111111111 1111110101 1111011111 1101010111 1111111101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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