Analysis of As Vanquish'd Erin
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
As vanquish'd Erin wept beside
The Boyne's ill-fated river,
She saw where Discord, in the tide,
Had dropp'd his loaded quiver.
"Lie hid," she cried, "ye venom'd darts,
Where mortal eye may shun you;
Lie hid -- the stain of manly hearts,
That bled for me, is on you."
But vain her wish, her weeping vain --
As Time too well hath taught her --
Each year the Fiend returns again,
And dives into that water;
And brings, triumphant, from beneath
His shafts of desolation,
And sends them, wing'd with worse than death,
Through all her maddening nation.
Alas for her who sits and mourns,
Even now, beside that river --
Unwearied still the Fiend returns,
And stored is still his quiver.
"When will this end, ye Powers of Good?"
She weeping asks for ever;
But only hears, from out that flood,
The Demon answer, "Never!"
Scheme | ABABCDCD XBXBXEXE XBXBXBXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 0111010 11110001 1111010 1111111 1101111 11011101 1111111 11010101 1111110 11010101 0101110 01010101 111010 01111111 11010010 01101101 10101110 110101 0111110 111111011 1101110 11011111 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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