Analysis of The Celebes
John Boyle O'Reilly 1844 (Dowth) – 1890 (Boston)
DEAR islands of the Orient,
Where Nature's first of love was spent;
Sweet hill-tops of the summered land
Where gods and men went hand in hand
In golden days of sinless earth!
Woe rack the womb of time, that bore
The primal evil to its birth!
It came; the gods were seen no more:
The fields made sacred by their feet,
The flowers they loved, grown all too sweet,
The streams their bright forms mirrored,
The fragrant banks that made their bed,
The human hearts round which they wove
Their threads of superhuman love—
These were too dear and desolate
To sink to fallen man's estate;
The gods who loved them loosed the seas,
Struck free the barriers of the deep,
That rolled in one careering sweep
And filled the land, as 'twere a grave,
And left no beauteous remnant, save
Those hill-tops called the Celebes.
Scheme | AABBCDCDEEFGHIJKLMMNNL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 11011111 1111011 11011101 0101111 11011111 01010111 11010111 01110111 010111111 0111110 01011111 01011111 1110101 10110100 11110101 01111101 110100101 11010101 01011101 0111101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 816 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 636 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 146 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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