Analysis of Menace
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Oh, when the land is white as milk
With bloom that lets no leaf between,
When trees are clad in grass-green silk
And thrushes sing in a gold screen:
What is it ails Dark Rosaleen?
Why is the banshee in the night
Crying for all the young men gone?
Now when the world with bloom is white,
When the good sun's warm on the stone,
Why does the Woman of Death make moan?
As one who is not comforted,
I heard in every lonely glen
Dark Rosaleen cry for her dead
And for her dying race of men.
Dark Rosaleen, take heart again!
For, oh, there's God in His high place
And Patrick seated by His side
To judge with Him the Irish race;
And Columcille, Kieran and Bride
Shall not forget before God's Face.
There's Mary of the Seven Swords,
Queen of the Gael -- oh, many a saint,
With Oliver Plunkett to look towards
The Mercy Seat, with praise and plaint,
For Rosaleen, ever the Lord's.
Oh, weep no more, Dark Rosaleen!
Menace and terror pass you by.
Oh, loved beyond the sceptred queen,
Dark Rosaleen for whom men die!
And loved till death, Dark Rosaleen.
Scheme | ABABB CXCDD XEXEE FGFGF HXHCH BIBIB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (23%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011111 11111101 11110111 01010011 111111 11001001 10110111 11011111 10111101 110101111 11111100 110100101 111101 01010111 111101 11110111 01010111 11110101 011001 11010111 11010101 110111001 1100101101 01011101 111001 111111 10010111 1101011 111111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,020 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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