Analysis of Salutation
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
To you and you and you who have given
Two sons for England's sake,--what word?
Oh, there is weeping heard in Heaven
And Mary's heart has the Eighth Sword.
Henceforth as you go through the town
The folk who see you go and come
Will doff their hats to your renown,
With: Salvete flores Martyrum!
O chosen from all women and men
For that high lonely destiny!
Now that we look at you, 'tis plain
God set a mark to know you by.
Your cross was growing in the tree
Before the golden world was made;
Your martyr's palms began to be
Before 'Let there be Light' was said.
And still where'er you come and go
The world's the lighter for your load.
Who thinks on common things and low
When your high sorrow takes the road?
O predestined and pre-elect
'Tis you must bear the glorious scars.
Stand up, dear Saints, white and erect,
The wounded in the heavenly wars.
Beloved, afflicted, marked for grace.
God's folk who watch you go and come,
Call, leaning from their Paradise place,
Salvete flores Martyrum!
Scheme | AXAX BCBC XDXX DXDX EFEF GXGX HCH C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011110 11110111 111101010 01011011 11111101 01111101 11111101 1111 110111001 11110100 11111111 11011111 11110001 01010111 1110111 01111111 01101101 01010111 11110101 11110101 1100101 111101001 11111001 010001001 01010111 11111101 11011101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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