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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