Analysis of The Wife of Llew
Francis Ledwidge 1887 (Slane) – 1917 (Boezinge)
And Gwydion said to Math, when it was Spring:
"Come now and let us make a wife for Llew."
And so they broke broad boughs yet moist with dew,
And in a shadow made a magic ring:
They took the violet and the meadow-sweet
To form her pretty face, and for her feet
They built a mound of daisies on a wing,
And for her voice they made a linnet sing
In the wide poppy blowing for her mouth.
And over all they chanted twenty hours.
And Llew came singing from the azure south
And bore away his wife of birds and flowers.
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Metre | 011111111 1101110111 0111111111 000110101 1101000011 1101010101 1101110101 0101110101 0011010101 01011101010 0111010101 01011111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 396 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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