Analysis of Humming-Bird
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
UP from the navel of the world,
Where Cuzco has her founts of fire,
The passer of the Gulf he comes.
He lives in air, a bird of fire,
Charted by flowers still he comes
Through spaces that are half the world.
With glows of suns and seas he comes;
A life within our shadowed world
That's bloom, and gem, and kiss of fire!
| Scheme | ABC BCA CAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 11101110 01010111 110101110 10110111 11011101 11110111 010110101 110101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 319 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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