Analysis of The City Clocks
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
THE City clocks point out the hours
They look like moons on their darkened towers-
And I who was shown my destination
Thrice, but have no sense of location,
Am back again at one or the other
Looming clocks that have changed the figure.
Moments a thousand have hurried over,
And the sought place is as far as ever.
The City clocks point out the hours
They look like moons on their darkened towers;
That Time and Place are a tangled skein
Their mingled strokes say over again.
Scheme | AA bb cc cc AA xx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111010 1111111010 011111010 111111010 1101111010 101111010 1001011010 0011111110 010111010 1111111010 110110101 110111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 471 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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