Analysis of A Rann Of Exile
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
NOR right, nor left, nor any road I see a comrade face,
Nor word to lift the heart in me I hear in any place;
They leave me, who pass by me, to my loneliness and
care,
Without a house to draw my step nor a fire that I might share!
Ochone, before our people knew the scatt'ring of the
dearth,
Before they saw potatoes rot and melt black in the earth,
I might have stood in Connacht, on the top of Cruchmaelinn,
And all around me I would see the hundreds of my
kin.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111011 11110101110101 1111111111000 1 0101111110101111 101101010110 1 01110101011001 11110110111 0101111101011 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 461 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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