Analysis of Pan
Francis Ledwidge 1887 (Slane) – 1917 (Boezinge)
He knows the safe ways and unsafe
And he will lead the lambs to fold,
Gathering them with his merry pipe,
The gentle and the overbold.
He counts them over one by one,
And leads them back by cliff and steep,
To grassy hills where dawn is wide,
And they may run and skip and leap.
And just because he loves the lambs
He settles them for rest at noon,
And plays them on his oaten pipe
The very wonder of a tune.
Scheme | XABA XCXC XDBD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011001 01110111 100111101 010001 11110111 01111101 11011111 01110101 01011101 11011111 0111111 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 405 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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