Analysis of Behind The Hill (The Adventures Of Seumas Beg)
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
Behind the hill I met a man in green
Who asked me if my mother had gone out?
I said she had. He asked me had I seen
His castle where the people sing and shout
From dawn to dark, and told me that he had
A crock of gold inside a hollow tree,
And I could have it., I wanted money bad
To buy a sword with, and I thought that he
Would keep his solemn word; so, off we went.
He said he had a pound hid in the crock,
And owned the castle too, and paid no rent
To any one, and that you had to knock
Five hundred times. I asked, "Who reckoned up?"
And he said, "You insulting little pup!"
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 0101110101 1111110111 1111111111 1101010101 1111011111 0111010101 01111110101 1101101111 1111011111 1111011001 0101010111 1101011111 1101111101 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 433 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 131 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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