Analysis of An Drinaun Donn
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
A HUNDRED men think I am theirs when with them I
drink ale,
But their presence fades away from me and their high spirits fail
When I think upon your converse kind by the meadow
and the linn,
And your form smoother than the silk on the Mountain of O'Flynn.
Oh, Paddy, is it pain to you that I'm wasting night and day,
And, Paddy, is it grief to you that I'll soon be in the clay?
My first love with the winning mouth, my treasure you'll abide,
Till the narrow coffin closes me and the grass grows through my side.
The man who strains to leap the wall, we think him
foolish still,
When to his hand is the easy ditch to vault across at will;
The rowan tree is fine and high, but bitter its berries grow,
While blackberries and raspberries are on shrubs that blossom low.
Farewell, farewell, forever, to yon town amongst the trees;
Farewell, the town that draws me on mornings and on
eves.
Oh, many's the ugly morass now, and many's the crooked
road,
That lie henceforth between me and where my heart's
bestowed.
And Mary, Ever Virgin, where will I turn my head!
I know not where his house is built, nor where his fields are spread.
Ah, kindly was the counsel that my kinsfolk gave to me,
'The hundred twists are in his heart, and the thousand tricks has he.'
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Metre | 010111111111 11 111010111011101 111011101101 001 011101011010101 110111111110101 010111111111001 11110101110101 1010101010011111 01111101111 101 111110101110111 010111011101101 1100101111101 110101110101 10111111001 1 1101001101010 1 11110110111 01 0101010111111 11111111111111 1101010111111 010110110010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,238 |
Words | 241 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 5, 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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