Analysis of The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
There's music in my heart all day,
I hear it late and early,
It comes from fields are far away,
The wind that shakes the barley.
Above the uplands drenched with dew
The sky hangs soft and pearly,
An emerald world is listening to
The wind that shakes the barley.
Above the bluest mountain crest
The lark is singing rarely,
It rocks the singer into rest,
The wind that shakes the barley.
Oh, still through summers and through springs
It calls me late and early.
Come home, come home, come home, it sings,
The wind that shakes the barley.
Scheme | abaB cbcB dbdB ebeB |
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Poetic Form | Kyrielle Quatrain |
Metre | 11001111 1111010 11111101 0111010 01010111 0111010 110111001 0111010 01010101 0111010 11010011 0111010 11110011 1111010 11111111 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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