This is an analysis of A Poor Scholar Of The 'Forties by Padraic Colum.
MY eyelids red and heavy arc
With bending o'er the smold'ring peat.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbbbXX ccdcdee XfgfgXXgababcd
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,14,
- Metre: 11111101 010100101 110010111 11010111 01001101 11110111 11010110 11110111 11111111 01000111 01010001 11010111 11111111 11010111 11111101 010011001 11110101 011010111 01011111 10011101 110111010 11010111 11010101 11110111 01010111 11011101 01010101 10110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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