Analysis of The Home of My Heart
Francis William Bourdillon 1852 (Runcorn) – 1921
Not here in the populous town,
In the playhouse or mart,
Not here in the ways gray and brown,
Bnt afar on the green-swelling down,
Is the home of my heart.
There the hillside slopes down to a dell
Whence a streamlet has start;
There are woods and sweet grass on the swell,
And the south winds and west know it well:
‘Tis the home of my heart.
There’s a cottage o’ershadowed by leaves
Growing fairer than art,
Where under the low sloping eaves -
No false hand the swallow bereaves:
‘Tis the home of my heart.
And there as you gaze down the lea,
Where the trees stand apart,
Over grassland and woodland may be
You will catch the faint gleam of the sea
From the home of my heart.
And there In the rapturous spring,
When the morning rays dart
O’er the plain, and the morning birds sing,
You may see the most beautiful thing
In the home of my heart;
For there at the casement above,
Where the rosebushes part,
Will blush the fair face of my love:
Ah, yes I It is this that will prove
‘Tis the home of my heart.
Scheme | abaab cbccB dbddB ebeeb fbffb gbgxB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 11001001 00111 11001101 101101101 101111 10111101 10111 111011101 001101111 101111 1010111 101011 11001101 1110101 101111 01111101 101101 1010111 111011101 101111 01001001 101011 101001011 111011001 001111 1110101 1011 11011111 111111111 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 996 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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