Analysis of The Perfect Playmate
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Roger Charles Noel Bellingham. Before Ypres, March 4th, 1915
The Perfect Playmate, whither does he stray
That now no more his feet come up this way
That rang so blithe upon the nursery floor?
Wild games and laughter! Now the little son
Listens and longs, and his small world's undone.
The Perfect Playmate will return no more.
Who else made holidays of rainy days?
Who told such marvels by the firelight blaze?
King of misrule when Christmas frosts were hoar.
But now the black-gowned mother's tears will flow
Whether her little son be good or no.
The Perfect Playmate will return no more.
Who built the sands, dug deep, was never loth
Nor ever tired: was strong enough for both:
Home on his shoulders a small drowsy head bore;
Was ever smiling. The boy keeps apart
A gay young smiling father in his heart.
The Perfect Playmate will return no more!
No more, no more! Himself a boy he goes
Beyond the uttermost peaks, the eternal snows:
Light on his young brown head from an open door.
His youth unwithered, smiling all the way,
Into the land of youth, the Spring of Day.
The Perfect Playmate will return no more.
Scheme | x aabccB ddbeeB xxbffB ggbaaB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1010110011111 001110111 1111111111 11110101001 1101010101 1001011101 001110111 111101101 111101011 1101110101 1101110111 1001011111 001110111 1101111101 11010110111 11110011011 1101001101 0111010011 001110111 1111010111 0101100101 11111111101 11110101 0101110111 001110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,096 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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