Analysis of In The Womb
George William Russell 1867 (Lurgan) – 1935 (Bournemouth)
STILL rests the heavy share on the dark soil:
Upon the black mould thick the dew-damp lies:
The horse waits patient: from his lowly toil
The ploughboy to the morning lifts his eyes.
The unbudding hedgerows dark against day’s fires
Glitter with gold-lit crystals: on the rim
Over the unregarding city’s spires
The lonely beauty shines alone for him.
And day by day the dawn or dark enfolds
And feeds with beauty eyes that cannot see
How in her womb the mighty mother moulds
The infant spirit for eternity.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC BDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1101011011 0101110111 0111011101 011010111 011101110 1011110101 100111 0101010111 011101111 0111011101 1001010101 0101010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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