Analysis of Achill Girl's Song
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
FROM THE IRISH
I’d bring you these for dowry
A field from heather free,
White sheep upon the mountain,
And calves that follow me.
I saw you by the well-side
Upon Saint Finnian's Day;
I thought you'd come and ask for me
But you kept far away.
Oh, if you ask not for me,
But leave me here instead,
The petticoat in dye-pot here
Will never fast its red
For me upon the well-slope
To wear on Finnian's Day
My dress will be the sheet bleached there,
My place, below the clay!
Scheme | X AAXA XBAB ACXC XBXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010 1111110 011101 1101010 011101 1111011 01111 11110111 111101 1111111 111101 0100111 110111 1101011 11111 11110111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 464 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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