An Idyll
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
You stay for a while beside me with your beauty young and rare,
Though your light limbs are as limber as the foal's that follows the mare;
Brow fair and young and tender where thought has scarce begun,
Hair bright as the breast of the eagle when he strains up to the sun!
In the space of a broken castle I found you on a day
When the call of the new-come cuckoo went with me all the way,
You stood by un-mortised stones that were rough and black with age,
The fawn beloved of the hunter in the panther's broken cage!
And we went down together by paths your childhood knew,
Remote you went beside me like the spirit of the dew,
Hard were the hedgerows still, sloe-bloom was their scanty dower,
You slipped it within your bosom, the bloom that scarce is flower!
And now you stay beside me with your beauty young and rare,
Though your light limbs are as limber as the foal's that follows the mare,
Brow fair and young and tender where thought has scarce begun,
Hair bright as the breast of the eagle when he strains up to the sun!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | aABB ccdd eexx aABB |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,020 |
Words | 199 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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