Analysis of The Spells Of Home
Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1793 (Liverpool, Lancashire) – 1835 (Dublin, County Dublin)
There blend the ties that strengthen
Our hearts in hours of grief,
The silver links that lengthen
Joy's visits when most brief.
BERNARD BARTON.
BY the soft green light in the woody glade,
On the banks of moss where thy childhood play'd;
By the household tree thro' which thine eye
First look'd in love to the summer-sky,
By the dewy gleam, by the very breath
Of the primrose tufts in the grass beneath,
Upon thy heart there is laid a spell,
Holy and precious oh! guard it well!
By the sleepy ripple of the stream,
Which hath lull'd thee into many a dream;
By the shiver of the ivy-leaves
To the wind of morn at thy casement-eaves,
By the bee's deep murmur in the limes,
By the music of the Sabbath-chimes,
By every sound of thy native shade,
Stronger and dearer the spell is made.
By the gathering round the winter hearth,
When twilight call'd unto household mirth;
By the fairy tale or the legend old
In that ring of happy faces told;
By the quiet hour when hearts unite
In the parting prayer and the kind 'Good-night;'
By the smiling eye and the loving tone,
Over thy life has the spell been thrown.
And bless that gift! it hath gentle might,
A guardian power and a guiding light.
It hath led the freeman forth to stand
In the mountain-battles of his land;
It hath brought the wanderer o'er the seas
To die on the hills of his own fresh breeze;
And back to the gates of his father's hall,
It hath led the weeping prodigal.
Yes! when thy heart in its pride would stray
From the pure first loves of its youth away;
When the sullying breath of the world would come
O'er the flowers it brought from its childhood's home;
Think thou again of the woody glade,
And the sound by the rustling ivy made,
Think of the tree at thy father's door,
And the kindly spell shall have power once more!
Scheme | ABABA CCDDXXEE FFGGHHCC XXIIJJKK JJ LLMMXX NNXXCCOO |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101110 10101011 0101110 110111 0110 1011100101 101111111 10111111 110110101 1010110101 101100101 011111101 100101111 101010101 1111011001 101010101 101111111 101110001 101010101 1100111101 100100111 1010010101 1111011 1010110101 011110101 101010111 0010100111 1010100101 101110111 011111101 01001000101 111010111 001010111 11101001001 1110111111 0110111101 111010100 111101111 1011111101 101110111 10010111111 110110101 0011010101 110111101 00101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,753 |
Words | 337 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 8, 8, 8, 2, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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