Analysis of Across The Door

Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)



THE fiddles were playing and playing,
The couples were out on the floor;
From converse and dancing he drew me,
And across the door.

Ah! strange were the dim, wide meadows,
And strange was the cloud-strewn sky,
And strange in the meadows the corncrakes,
And they making cry!

The hawthorn bloom was by us,
Around us the breath of the south
White hawthorn, strange in the night-time
His kiss on my mouth!


Scheme XAXA BCBC XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 010010010 01001101 110010111 00101 1100111 0110111 0100101 01101 011111 01101101 1110011 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 398
Words 74
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. more…

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