Analysis of Francis Ledwidge
Grace Hazard Conkling 1878 (New York City) – 1958 (Mexico)
(Killed in action July 31, 1917)
Nevermore singing
Will you go now,
Wearing wild moonlight
On your brow.
The moon's white mood
In your silver mind
Is all forgotten.
Words of wind
From off the hedgerow
After rain,
You do not hear them;
They are vain.
There is a linnet
Craves a song,
And you returning
Before long.
Now who will tell her,
Who can say
On what great errand
You are away?
You whose kindred
Were hills of Meath,
Who sang the lane-rose
From her sheath,
What voice will cry them
The grief at dawn
Or say to the blackbird
You are gone?
Scheme | X ABXBXCXCDEFEXGAGDHXHXIXIFJXJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 1010 1111 1011 111 0111 01101 11010 111 1101 101 11111 111 11010 101 01010 011 11110 111 11110 1101 1110 0111 11011 101 11111 0111 111010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 551 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 28 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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