Analysis of The Rushes
Francis Ledwidge 1887 (Slane) – 1917 (Boezinge)
The rushes nod by the river
As the winds on the loud waves go,
And the things they nod of are many,
For it's many the secret they know.
And I think they are wise as the fairies
Who lived ere the hills were high,
They nod so grave by the river
To everyone passing by.
If they would tell me their secrets
[: I would go by a hidden way,
To the rath when the moon retiring
Dips dim horns into the gray.
And a fairy-girl out of Leinster
In a long dance I should meet,
My heart to her heart beating,
My feet in rhyme with her feet.
Scheme | ABXB XCAC XDED AFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01011010 10110111 001111110 111001011 0111111010 1110101 11111010 110101 11111110 11110101 101101010 1110101 00101111 0011111 1110110 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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