Analysis of Night-Fliers
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
THE birds that soar break space
Like heavy bodies hurled!
Not so the birds of night
They move as in a sphere
On which they touch always
How patterned their flight!
The owl, the whippoorwill!
And like volcano's ash
His plumes all cinderous
Black mirrors are his eyes
(The owl's). They'll fill with light
What time will come the cries
As from tongues taut with dews
(The whippoorwills). What sounds
Are in their day-lost world,
What motions and what hues!
Scheme | ABCXXCX XADCDEXBE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111 110101 110111 111001 11111 11011 0101 010101 1111 110111 011111 111101 111111 01011 101111 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 446 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 9 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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