Analysis of At The Fair (The Rocky Road To Dublin)
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
The lark shall never come to say
To a gombeen-man, "Good day,"
And the lark shall never cry
To a kindly man, "Good-bye."
See the greedy gombeen-man
Taking everything he can
From man and woman, dog and cat,
And the lark does not like that.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01110111 101111 0011101 1010111 101011 101011 11010101 0011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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