Analysis of Tulips
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
An age being mathematical, these flowers
Of linear stalks and spheroid blooms were prized
By men with wakened, speculative minds,
And when with mathematics they explored
The Macrocosm, and came at last to
The Vital Spirit of the World, and named it
Invisible Pure Fire, or, say, the Light,
The Tulips were the Light's receptacles.
The gold, the bronze, the red, the bright-swart Tulips!
No emblems they for us who no more dream
Of mathematics burgeoning to light
With Newton's prism and Spinoza's lens,
Or berkeley's ultimate, Invisible Pure Fire.
In colored state and carven brilliancy
We see them now, or, more illumined,
In sudden fieriness, as flowers fit
To go with vestments red on Pentecost.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJGKLAMFN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100100110 1100101101 111110001 011010101 0101111 01010101011 01001101101 0100010100 01010101110 1101111111 101010011 11010011 1101000100110 0101011 111111010 01011101 11111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 706 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 556 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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