Analysis of Across The Door
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
THE fiddles were playing and playing,
The couples were out on the floor;
From converse and dancing he drew me,
And across the door.
Ah! strange were the dim, wide meadows,
And strange was the cloud-strewn sky,
And strange in the meadows the corncrakes,
And they making cry!
The hawthorn bloom was by us,
Around us the breath of the south
White hawthorn, strange in the night-time
His kiss on my mouth!
Scheme | XAXA BCBC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010010010 01001101 110010111 00101 1100111 0110111 0100101 01101 011111 01101101 1110011 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 398 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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