Analysis of A Mountaineer

Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)



ERE Beowulf's song
Was heard from the ships,
Ere Roland had set
The horn to his lips:

In Ogham strokes
A name was writ:
That name his name
Lives in yet.

The strokes on the edge
Of the stone might count
The acres he has
On this bare mount;

But he remembers
The pillar-stone,
And knows that he is
Of the seed of Eoin.


Scheme XABA XXXB XCXC XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 111 11101 11011 01111 011 0111 1111 101 01101 10111 01011 1111 11010 0101 01111 10111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 308
Words 66
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. more…

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