Analysis of Inscriptions : V.
Thomas MacDonagh 1878 (Cloughjordan) – 1916 (Kilmainham Gaol)
--Winter is dead! Hark, hark, upon our hills
The voices for whose coming thou didst yearn!
Hail Spring! O Life, with happy Spring return!
O Love, revive! Joy's laugh the dawntide fills,
--I shall not see him coming, Joy the vernal,
Joy the heart-wakener, with his songs and roses:
To thee the Spring: to me Death, who discloses
The splendour of another Joy, eternal!
Scheme | ABBA CDDC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10111101101 0101110111 1111110101 110111011 11111101010 1011111010 11011111010 0110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 367 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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