Analysis of Aghadoe

John Todhunter 1839 (Dublin) – 1916



There's a glade in Aghadoe, Aghadoe, Aghadoe,
There 's a green and silent glade in Aghadoe,
Where we met, my love and I, Love's fair planet in the sky,
O'er that sweet and silent glade in Aghadoe.

There 's a glen in Aghadoe, Aghadoe, Aghadoe,
There 's a deep and secret glen in Aghadoe,
Where I hid from the eyes of the red-coats and their spies,
That year the trouble came to Aghadoe.

O, my curse on one black heart in Aghadoe, Aghadoe,
On Shaun Dhu, my mother's son in Aghadoe!
When your throat fries in hell's drouth, salt the flame be in your
mouth,
For the treachery you did in Aghadoe!

For they track'd me to that glen in Aghadoe, Aghadoe,
When the price was on his head in Aghadoe:
O'er the mountain, through the wood, as I stole to him with food,
Where in hiding lone he lay in Aghadoe.

But they never took him living in Aghadoe, Aghadoe;
With the bullets in his heart in Aghadoe,
There he lay, the head, my breast keeps the warmth of where 'twould
rest,
Gone, to win the traitor's gold, from Aghadoe!

I walk'd to Mallow town from Aghadoe, Aghadoe,
Brought his head from the gaol's gate to Aghadoe;
Then I cover'd him with fern, and I piled on him the cairn,
Like an Irish King he sleeps in Aghadoe.

O, to creep into that cairn in Aghadoe, Aghadoe!
There to rest upon his breast in Aghadoe!
Sure your dog for you could die with no truer heart than I,
Your own love, cold on your cairn in Aghadoe.


Scheme AABA AAXA AAXXA AAAA AAAAA AAXA AABA
Poetic Form
Metre 1010111 1101010101 11111011110001 1011010101 11010111 1101010101 1111011011011 11010111 1111111011 111110101 1111011101101 1 101001101 1111111011 101111101 100101011111111 101011101 11101110011 101001101 1110111101111 1 11101111 111101111 111101111 11101110111101 111011101 1110111011 111011101 11111111110111 111111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,383
Words 270
Sentences 11
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 4
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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John Todhunter

John Todhunter was an Irish poet and playwright who wrote seven volumes of poetry, and several plays. more…

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