Analysis of In The Carolina Woods

Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)



HERE you should lie, ye Kings of eld,
Barbarossa, Boabdil,
And Czar Lazar and Charlemagne,
Arthur, Gaelic Finn-
Here where the
muffling Spanish mosses
Forests with forests fill!

Not in a cavern where the winds
Trample with battle-call,
But in these woods where branch and branch
From tree and tree let fall
Not moss, but grey and cobweb beards,
Kings' cabalistic beards!

Here should you sleep your cycles out,
Ye Kings with hoary beards!


Scheme ABXXXXB XBXBCC AC
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 11 0110010 10101 110 101010 101101 10010101 101101 10111101 110111 1111011 111 11111101 111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 431
Words 76
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 6, 2
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. more…

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