Analysis of From The West
(In memory of Mairtin O Direain)
drifting gulls
track a team
a mhairtin
wild flowers
clutter the soil
sheets flutter
from the west
your land
a welcome touch
for men on the bog
| Scheme | A XXA XX XXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001111 101 101 01 110 1001 110 101 11 0101 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 165 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 2, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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