Analysis of At Cashel
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
ABOVE me stand, worn from their ancient use,
The King's, the Bishop's, and the Warrior's house,
Quiet as folds upon a grassy knoll:
Stark-grey they stand, wall joined to ancient wall,
Chapel, and Castle, and Cathedral.
It is not they are old, but stone by stone
Into another lifetime they have grown,
The life of memories an old man has:
They dream upon what things have come to pass,
And know that stones grow friendly with the grass.
The name has crumbled CASHEL that has come
From conqueror-challenging CASTELLUM
Walls m a name! No citadel is here,
Now as a fane the empty walls uprear
Where green and greener grass spreads far and near!
Scheme | XXXXX AAXBB CCDDX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0111111101 010100011 1011010101 1111111101 100100010 1111111111 010101111 0111001111 1101111111 0111110101 011101111 11001001 110111011 110101011 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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