Analysis of In The Poppy Field
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
Mad Patsy said, he said to me,
That every morning he could see
An angel walking on the sky;
Across the sunny skies of morn
He threw great handfuls far and nigh
Of poppy seed among the corn;
And then, he said, the angels run
To see the poppies in the sun.
A poppy is a devil weed,
I said to him - he disagreed;
He said the devil had no hand
In spreading flowers tall and fair
Through corn and rye and meadow land,
by garth and barrow everywhere:
The devil has not any flower,
But only money in his power.
And then he stretched out in the sun
And rolled upon his back for fun:
He kicked his legs and roared for joy
Because the sun was shining down:
He said he was a little boy
And would not work for any clown:
He ran and laughed behind a bee,
And danced for very ecstasy.
Scheme | AABCBCDD EEFGFGHH DDIJIJAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 110010111 11010101 01010111 1111101 11010101 01110101 11010001 01010101 11111001 11010111 01010101 1101011 1101010 010111010 110100110 01111001 01011111 11110111 01011101 11110101 01111101 11010101 01110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 755 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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