Analysis of The Happy Isles
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles
In the golden haze off yonder,
Where the song of the sun-kissed breeze beguiles
And the ocean loves to wander.
Fragrant the vines that mantle those hills,
Proudly the fig rejoices,
Merrily dance the virgin rills,
Blending their myriad voices.
Our herds shall suffer no evil there,
But peacefully feed and rest them;
Never thereto shall prowling bear
Or serpent come to molest them.
Neither shall Eurus, wanton bold,
Nor feverish drought distress us,
But he that compasseth heat and cold
Shall temper them both to bless us.
There no vandal foot has trod,
And the pirate hordes that wander
Shall never profane the sacred sod
Of those beautiful isles out yonder.
Never a spell shall blight our vines,
Nor Sirius blaze above us,
But you and I shall drink our wines
And sing to the loved that love us.
So come with me where Fortune smiles
And the gods invite devotion,--
Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles
In the haze of that far-off ocean!
Scheme | Abab xaax cdcd efef gbgb hfhf aiAi |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 111110101 00101110 101101111 00101110 100111011 10011 10010101 10110010 1011101101 11001011 1011101 11011011 1011101 11001011 1111101 11011111 1110111 00101110 110010101 111001110 100111101 111011 110111101 01101111 11111101 00101010 111110101 001111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 953 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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