Analysis of Dedication: To M. C. M. C.
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
THE well-
They come to it and take
Their cupful or their palmful out of it.
The well-
Stones are around it, and an elder bush
Is there; a high rowan tree; and so
The well is marked.
Who knows
Whence come the waters? Through what passages
Beneath? From what high tors
Where forests are? Forests dripping rain!
Branches pouring to the ground; trunks, barks, roots,
Letting the streamlets down: through the dark earth
The water flows, and in that secret flood
That's called a spring, that finds this little hollow.
Who knows
Whence come the waters that fill cup and palm?
Sweetheart and comrade, I give you
The waters' marches and the forest's bound,
The valley-filling cloud, the trees that set
The rains beneath their roots, out of this well.
Scheme | Axx Axbx CxbxxxxbCx xxxa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01 111101 11111111 01 1101101101 110110101 0111 11 1101011100 011111 110110101 1010101111 100111011 0101001101 11011111010 11 1101011101 101111 0101000101 0101010111 0101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 729 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 10, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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