Analysis of Valentine Brown
Aogán Ó Rathaille 1670 (County Kerry) – 1728
Because all night my mind inclines to wander and to rave,
Because the English dogs have made Ireland a green grave,
Because all of Munster's glory is daily trampled down,
I have traveled far to meet you, Valentine Brown.
Because the might of Cashel is withered all away,
And the badger skulks in Brian's house, seeking out his prey,
And the laughing kings are all deprived of scepter and of crown,
I have traveled far to meet you, Valentine Brown.
Because the deer in Ross's wood run no longer free,
And the crows of death are croaking now on top of every tree,
And never a fish is seen to leap where mountain streams come down,
I have traveled far to meet you, Valentine Brown.
Demish ravaged in the west, her good lord gone as well,
Some foreign city has become our refuge and our hell.
Wounds that hurt a poet's soul can rob him of renown:
I have traveled far to meet you, Valentine Brown.
Scheme | aabB ccbB ddbB eebB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01111101110011 01010111100011 0111110110101 11101111101 010111110101 00101010110111 00101110111011 11101111101 0101010111101 0011111011111001 010011111110111 11101111101 1010001011111 1101010110100101 1110101111101 11101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 885 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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