Analysis of Anthony O'Daly

James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950



Since your limbs were laid out
The stars do not shine,
The fish leap not out
In the waves.
On our meadows the dew
Does not fall in the morn,
For O'Daly is dead:
Not a flower can be born,
Not a word can be said,
Not a tree have a leaf;
Anthony, after you
There is nothing to do,
There is nothing but grief.
  


Scheme ABACDEFEFGDDG
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 01111 01111 001 110101 111001 111011 1010111 101111 101101 100101 111011 111011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 295
Words 65
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 230
Words per stanza (avg) 65
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on April 29, 2023

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James Stephens

James Stephens was an Irish Republican and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin on 17 March 1858, later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, also referred to as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood by contemporaries. more…

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