Analysis of Real Property
Harold Monro 1879 (Brussels) – 1932
Tell me about that harvest field.
Oh! Fifty acres of living bread.
The colour has painted itself in my heart;
The form is patterned in my head.
So now I take it everywhere,
See it whenever I look round;
Hear it growing through every sound,
Know exactly the sound it makes —
Remembering, as one must all day,
Under the pavement the live earth aches.
Trees are at the farther end,
Limes all full of the mumbling bee:
So there must be a harvest field
Whenever one thinks of a linden tree.
A hedge is about it, very tall,
Hazy and cool, and breathing sweet.
Round paradise is such a wall,
And all the day, in such a way,
In paradise the wild birds call.
You only need to close your eyes
And go within your secret mind,
And you'll be into paradise:
I've learnt quite easily to find
Some linden trees and drowsy bees,
A tall sweet hedge with the corn behind.
I will not have that harvest mown:
I'll keep the corn and leave the bread.
I've bought that field; it's now my own:
I've fifty acres in my head.
I take it as a dream to bed.
I carry it about all day....
Sometimes when I have found a friend
I give a blade of corn away.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 110101101 0111001011 01110011 1111110 11010111 111011001 10100111 010011111 100100111 1110101 111101001 11110101 0101110101 011011101 10010101 1101101 01010101 0100111 11011111 01011101 0110110 11110011 11010101 011110101 11111101 11010101 11111111 11010011 11110111 11010111 01111101 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,099 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4, 5, 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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