Analysis of Macaws

Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)



GREEN wings and yellow breasts on birds that stare
That turn their heads and stare,
And a red streamer tail!
They come from Yucatan
Where priests with clownish hats, and jade
Nose-coverings,
Looked pompously from steps of pyramids.
Now this their Yucatan,
This shop where they are Brobdingnagian.
Macaws that stare,
And blow into the conchs of their beaks,
And climb with their club feet.


Scheme AABCDEFCGAEH
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011111 111101 001101 11110 1111101 1100 11111100 11110 111110100 0111 010101111 011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 385
Words 67
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 313
Words per stanza (avg) 65
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. more…

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