Analysis of Blind Mary.
Thomas Osborne Davis 1814 (Mallow, County Cork) – 1845 (Dublin)
There flows from her spirit such love and delight,
That the face of Blind Mary is radiant with light--
As the gleam from a homestead through darkness will show
Or the moon glimmer soft through the fast falling snow.
Yet there's a keen sorrow comes o'er her at times,
As an Indian might feel in our northerly climes!
And she talks of the sunset, like parting of friends,
And the starlight, as love, that not changes nor ends.
Ah! grieve not, sweet maiden, for star or for sun,
For the mountains that tower or the rivers that run--
For beauty and grandeur, and glory, and light,
Are seen by the spirit, and not by the sight.
In vain for the thoughtless are sunburst and shade,
In vain for the heartless flowers blossom and fade;
While the darkness that seems your sweet being to bound
Is one of the guardians, an Eden around!
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEAA FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101011001 1011110110011 10110111011 101101101101 110110110011 11100110101001 01110111011 00111111011 11111011111 1010110101011 11000101001 11101001101 0110101101 011010101001 101011111011 111010011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 872 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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