Analysis of A Fairy Hunt
Francis Ledwidge 1887 (Slane) – 1917 (Boezinge)
Who would hear the fairy horn
Calling all the hounds of Finn
Must be in a lark's nest born
When the moon is very thin.
I who have the gift can hear
Hounds and horn and tally ho,
And the tongue of Bran as clear
As Christmas bells across the snow.
And beside my secret place
Hurries by the fairy fox,
With the moonrise on his face,
Up and down the mossy rocks.
Then the music of a horn
And the flash of scarlet men,
Thick as poppies in the corn
All across the dusky glen.
Oh! the mad delight of chase!
Oh ! the shouting and the cheer !
Many an owl doth leave his place
In the dusty tree to hear.
Scheme | ABAB CDED FGFG AHAH FEFC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 1110101 1010111 1100111 1011101 1110111 1010101 0011111 11010101 0011101 1010101 101111 101011 1010101 0011101 1110001 101011 1010111 1010001 10111111 0010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 582 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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