Analysis of On Two Sisters Whose Deaths Were Together
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
IN woods remote, hid in the mountain hollows,
Doves there are that have a gentler beauty,
Doves that are marked as by a poet's image,
And hence are called Doves of the Wounded Heart.
And such ye were, and we could never learn the
Call that would bring you to our breasts, our hands!
And such ye were, and ye were aliens in our
Barnyard-world Doves of the Wounded Heart!
You who were proud no storm had ever turned your
Flight, and you who were her cherished one
May ye have found, hid in your mountain hollows,
Your wood remote, Doves of the Wounded Heart!
| Scheme | AXXB XXXB XXAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011001010 1111101010 11111101010 0111110101 01100111010 111111101101 0110010100010 11110101 11011111011 101100101 11111011010 1101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 553 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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