Analysis of The Call to Ireland
Francis Ledwidge 1887 (Slane) – 1917 (Boezinge)
We have fought so much for the nation
In the tents we helped to divide;
Shall the cause of our common fathers
On our earthstones lie denied?
For the price of a field we have wrangled
While the weather rusted the plow,
' twas yours and 'twas mine and 'tis ours yet
And it's time to be fencing it now.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111010 00111101 1011101010 1101101 1011011110 10101001 1101101101 011111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 302 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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