Analysis of Laburnums
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
OVER old walls the Laburnums
hang cones of fire;
Laburnums that grow out of old
mould in old gardens:
Old maids and old men who have savings or pensions have
Shuttered themselves in the pales of old gardens.
The gardens grow wild; out of their mould the Laburnums
Draw cones of fire.
And we, who've no lindens, no palms, no cedars of Lebanon,
Rejoice you have gardens with mould, old men and old maids:
The bare and the dusty streets have now the Laburnums,
Have now cones of fire!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 11110 111111 10110 1101111101101 10010011110 01011111101 11110 01011111101100 0111101111011 01001011101 111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 478 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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