Analysis of Uhland's
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
Yonder stands the hillside chapel
Mid the evergreens and rocks,
All day long it hears the song
Of the shepherd to his flocks.
Then the chapel bell goes tolling-
Knelling for a soul that's sped;
Silent and sad the shepherd lad
Hears the requiem for the dead.
Shepherd, singers of the valley,
Voiceless now, speed on before;
Soon shall knell that chapel bell
For the songs you'll sing no more.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1010110 101001 1111101 1010111 10101110 110111 10010101 10100101 10101010 1011101 1111101 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 388 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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