Analysis of Macaws
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
GREEN wings and yellow breasts on birds that stare
That turn their heads and stare,
And a red streamer tail!
They come from Yucatan
Where priests with clownish hats, and jade
Nose-coverings,
Looked pompously from steps of pyramids.
Now this their Yucatan,
This shop where they are Brobdingnagian.
Macaws that stare,
And blow into the conchs of their beaks,
And climb with their club feet.
Scheme | AABCDEFCGAEH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 111101 001101 11110 1111101 1100 11111100 11110 111110100 0111 010101111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 385 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 313 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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