Analysis of Lilac Blossoms
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
WE mark the playing-time of sun and rain,
Until the rain too heavily upon us
Leans, and the sun stamps down upon our lustres,
And then our trees stand in their greennesses
No different from the privets in the hedges,
And we who made a pleasaunce at the door-step,
And, whether by the ash-heap or the spring-well
Growing, were ever fresh and ever radiant,
And fragrant more than grass is
We, we are gone without a word that praised us
You did not know how short the playing-time!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 01011100011 10011101101 011011011 11001010010 0111011011 01010111011 100101010100 0101111 11110101111 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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