Analysis of The Days Gone By
O the days gone by! O the days gone by!
The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye;
The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quail
As he piped across the meadows sweet as any nightingale;
When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was in the sky,
And my happy heart brimmed over in the days gone by.
In the days gone by, when my naked feet were tripped
By the honey-suckle's tangles where the water-lilies dipped,
And the ripples of the river lipped the moss along the brink
Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed cattle came to drink,
And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the truant's wayward cry
And the splashing of the swimmer, in the days gone by.
O the days gone by! O the days gone by!
The music of the laughing lip, the luster of the eye;
The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin's magic ring--
The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in everything,--
When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh,
In the golden olden glory of the days gone by.
Scheme | Aabbaa ccddaa Aaeeaa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110111 0100010001101 0110100010101 11101011110100 101110100011001 0110111000111 001111110101 10101101010101 001010101010101 101010101010111 00101110101101 0010101000111 1011110111 01010101010101 010101001101 01011101010 11110101010111 0010101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 986 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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