Analysis of 1841-1891
Joseph Mary Plunkett 1887 (Dublin) – 1916 (Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin)
The wind rose, the sea rose
A wave rose on the sea,
It sang the mournful singing
Of a sad centenary;
It sang the song of an old man
Whose heart had died of grief,
Whose soul had dried and withered
At the falling of the leaf.
It sang the song of a young man
Whose heart had died of pain
When Spring was black and withered
And the winter come again.
The wind rose, the sea rose
A wave rose on the sea
Swelled with the mournful singing
Of a sad centenary.
Scheme | ABcB defe dxfx ABcB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 011011 011101 1101010 101100 11011111 111111 1111010 1010101 11011011 111111 1111010 0010101 011011 011101 1101010 101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 448 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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