Analysis of At School
John Boyle O'Reilly 1844 (Dowth) – 1890 (Boston)
The bees are in the meadow
And the swallows in the sky;
The cattle in the shadow
Watch the river running by.
The wheat is hardly stirring;
The heavy ox-team lags;
The dragon-fly is whirring
Through the yellow-blossomed flag.
And down beside the river,
Where the trees lean o'er the pool,
Where the shadows reach the quiver
A boy has come to school.
His teachers are the swallow
And the river and the trees;
His lessons are the shallows
And the flowers and the bees.
Scheme | ABABCDCEFGFGAHDH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011001 0010001 010001 1010101 0111010 010111 0101110 1010101 0101010 10111001 1011010 011111 1101010 0010001 110101 0010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 458 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 367 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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