Analysis of Imitation of a Welsh Poem
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
AND that was when the chevaldour
Through the whole of night
Sang, for the moon of mid-July
Made the hillside bright.
Morfydd to David ap Gwillam spoke
When the song they did not hear,
'Something is stirring in the fern,
A living thing comes near.'
'Twas not the wolf, 'twas not the deer
That came with pause and bound;
A creature stood above the pair
Ap Gwillam's Irish hound
And knew them then, and knew them there
Where the pine branches wave,
As close beside, as deep in earth,
As lone as in a grave!
Scheme | ABXB XAXA ACAC ADXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 011101 10111 1101111 1011 1110111 1011111 10110001 010111 11011101 111101 01010101 11101 01110111 101101 11011101 111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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