Analysis of Over the hills and far away
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Over the hills and far away,
A little boy steals from his morning play
And under the blossoming apple-tree
He lies and he dreams of the things to be:
Of battles fought and of victories won,
Of wrongs o'erthrown and of great deeds done -
Of the valor that he shall prove some day,
Over the hills and far away -
Over the hills, and far away!
Over the hills and far away
It's, oh, for the toil the livelong day!
But it mattereth not to the soul aflame
With a love for riches and power and fame!
On, 0 man! while the sun is high -
On to the certain joys that lie
Yonder where blazeth the noon of day,
Over the hills and far away -
Over the hills, and far away!
Over the hills and far away,
An old man lingers at close of day;
Now that his journey is almost done,
His battles fought and his victories won -
The old-time honesty and truth,
The trustfulness and the friends of youth,
Home and mother-where are they?
Over the hills and far away -
Over the years, and far away!
Scheme | AabbccaAA AaddeeaAA AaccffaAa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 0101111101 0100100101 1101110111 1101011001 11101111 1010111111 10010101 10010101 10010101 11101011 111110101 10111001001 1110111 11010111 10110111 10010101 10010101 10010101 111101111 11110111 1101011001 01110001 0100111 1010111 10010101 10010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 950 |
Words | 195 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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