Analysis of Old Soldier
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
WE wander now who marched before,
Hawking our bran from door to door,
While other men from the mill take their flour:
So it is to be an Old Soldier.
Old, bare and sore, we look on the hound
Turning upon the stiff frozen ground,
Nosing the mould, with the night around:
So it is to be an Old Soldier.
And we who once rang out like a bell,
Have nothing now to show or to sell;
Old bones to carry, old stories to tell:
So it is to be an Old Soldier.
Scheme | aabB cccB dddB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 11011101 101011111 11011011110 111111110 110111101 100101101 100110101 111111110 011111101 110111111 1111011011 111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 443 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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