Analysis of The Tin-Whistle Player
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
'Tis long since, long since, since I heard
A tin-whistle played,
And heard the tunes, the ha'penny tunes
That nobody made!
The tunes that were before Cendfind
And Cir went Ireland's rounds
That were before the surety
That strings have given sounds!
And now is standing in the mist,
And jigging backward there,
Shrilling with fingers and with breath,
A tin-whistle player!
He has hare's eyes, a long face rimmed
Around with badger-grey;
Aimless, like cries of mountain birds
The tunes he has to play
The tunes that are for stretches bare,
And men whose lives are lone
And I had seen that face of his
Sculptured on cross of stone,
That long face, in a place of graves
With nettles overgrown.
Scheme | ABXB ACXC XDXX XEXE DFXFXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 01101 010101101 111 0110011 011101 10010100 111101 01110001 01101 1110011 011010 11110111 011101 10111101 011111 01111101 011111 01111111 101111 11100111 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 676 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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