Analysis of Comfort
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Now she need dread no more to grow
Too old for him, she need not know
The bitterness when he who was
All hers turns to some younger face,
And she his mother stands aside,
Bidding her heart be satisfied.
She need not to her own heart say,
'Fool, to be jealous! Now give way.
The young are for the young, and all
The new things are but natural.
Cast no least shadow on his feast;
Be glad just to be second best.'
She need not to her chill heart tell
She's loved a different way, but well.
And like that bird who leans her heart
Upon a thorn to ease its smart
Turn to the child who's taken his love
So that her darling son approve.
Now she's no longer dispossessed --
For second best's but second best --
He's hers for all Eternity
And she his one felicity.
Her little son, as when he lay
Small in her arms one heavenly day.
Scheme | AAXXBB CCXXXD EEFFXX DDGGCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 11111111 01001111 10111101 01110101 1001110 11110111 11110111 01110101 01111100 1111111 11111101 11110111 110100111 01111101 01011111 110111011 11010101 1111001 11011101 10110100 01110100 01011111 100111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 806 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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