Analysis of Hornets
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
How strangely like a churchyard skull
The thing that's there amongst the leaves!
A Hornets' nest; but stir the branch
And they'll be round your head and ears!
So wary ana so weaponed,
How do they not possess the wold?
Their lives a watch, their act a doom,
Of their own terrors they must die!
Livid, uneyed, articulate,
How like a skull their nest they make!
| Scheme | XX XX AA XA AX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1101011 01110101 01011101 01111101 1101011 11110101 11011101 11110111 101010 11011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 357 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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