Analysis of A Poem To Be Said On Hearing The Birds Sing
Douglas Hyde 1860 (Castlerea, County Roscommon) – 1949 (Little Ratra, Phoenix Park, Dublin)
A fragrant prayer upon the air
My child taught me,
Awaken there, the morn is fair,
The birds sing free;
Now dawns the day, awake and pray,
And bend the knee;
The Lamb who lay beneath the clay
Was slain for thee.
| Scheme | ABABCBCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010101 1111 01010111 0111 11010101 0101 01110101 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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