Analysis of Legend
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
THERE is an hour, they say,
On which your dream has power:
Then all you wish for comes,
As comes the lost field-bird
Down to the island-lights;
There is an hour, they say,
That's woven with your wish:
In dawn, or dayli’ gone,
In mirk-dark, or at noon,
In hush or hum of day,
May be that secret hour.
A herd-boy in the rain
Who looked o'er stony fields;
A young man in a street,
When fife and drum went by,
Making the sunlight shrill;
A girl in a lane,
When the long June twilight
Made friendly far-off things,
Had watch upon the hour:
The dooms they met are in
The song my grand-dam sings.
Scheme | AbxxxAxxxab cxxxxcxdbxd |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 1111110 111111 110111 110101 1111011 110111 01111 011111 011111 1111010 011001 1110101 011001 110111 10011 01001 10111 110111 1101010 011110 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 222 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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