Analysis of A Bit O' Shamrock.
Jean Blewett 1862 (Janet McKishnie Scotia, Kent County, Ontario) – 1934 (Chatham)
We met her on the hillside green
Below old Castle Blarney;
Her name, she whispered, was Eileen,
Her home it was Killarney.
I see her yet, her Irish eyes
Blue gray as seas in summer,
And hear her welcome, on this wise,
Vouchsafed to each new-comer:
"I'll guide ye up the stairway steep,
And naught will ye be missing
O' battlement or donjon keep,
Or blarney stone for kissing.
"The tower that was McCarthy's pride,
The scene o' battles thrilling,
And where the Desmond kept his bride -
Me fee is but a shilling.
"Here's for ye, now, a keepsake charm" -
Her low tones grow caressing -
"A bit o' shamrock green and warm,
To bring ye luck and blessing."
The "keepsake charm" - I have it yet -
A thing of guile and blarney;
Each green leaf dares me to forget
Fair Eileen o' Killarney.
Scheme | AAAA BCBC DEDE FEFE XEXE GAGA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101011 011101 01110101 01111 11010101 1111010 01010111 111110 1111011 0111110 1100111 111110 010110101 0111010 01010111 1111010 1111011 0111010 0111101 1111010 0111111 011101 11111101 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 771 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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