Analysis of Blue-Blood
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
We thought at first, this man is a king for sure,
Or the branch of a mighty and ancient and famous lineage—
That silly, sulky, illiterate, black-avised boor
Who was hatched by foreign vulgarity under a hedge.
The good men of Clare were drinking his health in a flood,
And gazing with me in awe at the princely lad,
And asking each other from what bluest blueness of blood
His daddy was squeezed, and the pa and the da of his dad ?
We waited there, gaping and wondering, anxiously,
Until he'd stop eating and let the glad tidings out,
And the slack-jawed booby proved to the hilt that he
Was lout, son of lout, by old lout, and was da to a lout !
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111110111 1011010010010100 11010100111 11111001001001 0111101011001 010110110101 01011011101011 11011001001111 1101100100100 0111100101101 001110110111 11111111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 644 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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