Analysis of The Young Colleen.
A young colleen warmly sings akin
To a bird across a vale of Donegal,
As she directs the cows of her father
To a field beyond a stone built wall.
Her name was Sheila on holidays from
A college in Derry where she studied,
History, English, and Mathematics…
With a future of teaching in mind.
The cows appear to like her because of
Their behaviour as they were driven
Along boreen after boreen in a vale
Of natural beauty and peace.
The main audience of the Colleen’s
Singing where animals and wildbirds
Although, here and there, a few farm
Workers stopped in response to her voice.
A happening observed or the product of
An imagination in love with the culture
Of a northern Irish county, its terrain and
People, as represented by a singing colleen.
Scheme | XABA XXCX DXAX CCXX DBXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 01110101 101010111 1101011010 101010111 011101101 0100101110 100100010 101011001 0101110011 1111010 011101001 11001001 01100101 10110001 1101011 101001101 01000110101 10010011010 101010101010 10101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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