Analysis of Where The Children Used To Play
The old farm-home is Mother's yet and mine,
And filled it is with plenty and to spare--,
But we are lonely here in life's decline,
Though fortune smiles around us everywhere:
We look across the gold
Of the harvests, as of old--
The corn, the fragrant clover, and the hay;
But most we turn our gaze,
As with eyes of other days,
To the orchard where the children used to play.
O from our life's full measure
And rich hoard of worldly treasure
We often turn our weary eyes away,
And hand in hand we wander
Down the old path winding yonder
To the orchard where the children used to play.
Our sloping pasture-lands are filled with herds;
The barn and granary-bins are bulging o'ver;
The grove's a paradise of singing birds--
The woodland brook leaps laughing by the door;
Yet lonely, lonely still,
Let us prosper as we will,
Our old hearts seem so empty everyway--
We can only through a mist
See the faces we have kissed
In the orchard where the children used to play.
O from our life's full measure
And rich hoard of worldly treasure
We often turn our weary eyes away,
And hand in hand we wander
Down the old path winding yonder
To the orchard where the children used to play.
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Metre | 0111110101 0111110011 1111010101 110101110 110101 1010111 0101010001 1111101 1111101 10101010111 11101110 01111010 11011010101 0101110 10111010 10101010111 10101011111 0101111011 010101101 011110101 110101 1110111 101111101 1110101 1010111 00101010111 11101110 01111010 11011010101 0101110 10111010 10101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,149 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 6, 10, 6 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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