Analysis of With Trumpet and Drum
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
With big tin trumpet and little red drum,
Marching like soldiers, the children come!
It 's this way and that way they circle and file---
My! but that music of theirs is fine!
This way and that way, and after a while
They march straight into this heart of mine!
A sturdy old heart, but it has to succumb
To the blare of that trumpet and beat of that drum!
Come on, little people, from cot and from hall---
This heart it hath welcome and room for you all!
It will sing you its songs and warm you with love,
As your dear little arms with my arms intertwine;
It will rock you away to the dreamland above---
Oh, a jolly old heart is this old heart of mine,
And jollier still is it bound to become
When you blow that big trumpet and beat that red drum!
So come; though I see not his dear little face
And hear not his voice in this jubilant place,
I know he were happy to bid me enshrine
His memory deep in my heart with your play---
Ah me! but a love that is sweeter than mine
Holdeth my boy in its keeping to-day!
And my heart it is lonely---so, little folk, come,
March in and make merry with trumpet and drum!
Scheme | AABCBCAADDECECAAFFCGCGAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001011 101100101 111101111001 111101111 1101101001 111011111 01011111101 101111001111 11101011011 11111001111 11111101111 111101111001 11110110101 101011111111 01001111101 111111001111 11111111101 01111011001 11101011101 11001011111 11101111011 111011011 011111011011 10011011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,093 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 845 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 220 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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