Analysis of Catullus: XXXI
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
(After passing Sirmione, April 1887.)
Sirmio, thou dearest dear of strands
That Neptune strokes in lake and sea,
With what high joy from stranger lands
Doth thy old friend set foot on thee!
Yea, barely seems it true to me
That no Bithynia holds me now,
But calmly and assuringly
Around me stretchest homely Thou.
Is there a scene more sweet than when
Our clinging cares are undercast,
And, worn by alien moils and men,
The long untrodden sill repassed,
We press the pined for couch at last,
And find a full repayment there?
Then hail, sweet Sirmio; thou that wast,
And art, mine own unrivalled Fair!
Scheme | A BCBCCDAD EFEFFGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110 1110111 11010101 11111101 11111111 11011111 111111 11001 0111101 11011111 1010111 011100101 01111 11011111 01010101 1111111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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