Analysis of To One Who Comes Now And Then
Francis Ledwidge 1887 (Slane) – 1917 (Boezinge)
When you come in, it seems a brighter fire
Crackles upon the hearth invitingly,
The household routine which was wont to tire ,
Grows full of novelty.
You sit upon our home-upholstered chair
And talk of matters wonderful and strange,
Of books, and travel, customs old which dare
The gods of Time and Change.
Till we with inner word our care refute
Laughing that this our bosoms yet assails,
While there are maidens dancing to a flute
In Andalusian vales.
And sometimes from my shelf of poems you take
And secret meanings to our hearts disclose,
As when the winds of June the mid bush shake
We see the hidden rose.
And when the shadows muster, and each tree
A moment flutters, full of shutting wings,
You take the fiddle and mysteriously
Wake wonders on the strings.
And in my garden, grey with misty flowers,
Low echoes fainter than a beetle's horn
Fill all the corners with it, like sweet showers
Of bells, in the owl's morn.
Come often, friend, with welcome and surprise
We'll greet you from the sea or from the town;
Come when you like and from whatever skies
Above you smile or frown.
Scheme | ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI CJBJ KLKL MNMN |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 11101101010 1001011 0101111110 111100 11011010101 0111010001 1101010111 011101 11110110101 1011101101 1111010101 00101 00111111011 01010110101 1101110111 110101 010110011 0101011101 1101001000 110101 00110111010 110101011 11010111110 110011 1101110001 1111011101 111101101 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,068 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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