Analysis of Bagpipes
Owen McBride 1950 (Ormoc)
Haunting sound of bagpipes played across the dial
I glanced across the pastures
green across the isle.
Elsewhere ‘cross the stony walls sheep in woolen coat
were grazing ‘cross the pastures
I smiled.
One day I’d wrote
about these very pastures, these fields, these rocky shores,
where little towns remained the same.
I told you years before
I’d make this trip some summer day, wind rose at my back.
I’d grasp a piece of luggage last week,
and as I packed
I thought I heard the crashing waves, thought I saw the spray
of ocean rising o’er the rock
while bagpipes fade away.
Scheme | XAX BAX BXX XXX XCX C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111101010 1101010 10101 11010110101 0101010 11 1111 0111010111101 11010101 111101 1111110111111 110111011 0111 1111010111101 11010101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 571 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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A dream of Scotland
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Written on September 05, 2003
Submitted by ocmack on September 18, 2021
Modified on April 16, 2023
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