Analysis of Wild Ass
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
THE Wild Ass lounges, legs struck out
In vagrom unconcern:
The tombs o Achaemenian kings
Are for those hooves to spurn.
And all of rugged Tartary
Lies with him on the ground,
The Tartary that knows no awe,
That has nor ban nor bound.
The wild horse from the herd is plucked
To bear a saddle's weight;
The boar is one keeps covert, and
The wolf runs with a mate.
But he's the solitary of space,
Curbless and unbeguiled;
The only being that bears a heart
Not recreant to the wild.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDXD XAXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 01110111 0101 01111 111111 011101 111101 011111 111111 01110111 11011 01111100 011101 11010011 101 010101101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 471 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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