Analysis of High Summer
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Pinks and syringa in the garden closes
And the sweet privet hedge and golden roses.
The pines hot in the sun, the drone of the bee;
They die in Flanders to keep these for me.
The long sunny days and the still weather,
The cuckoo and the blackbird shouting together,
The lambs calling their mothers out on the lea;
They die in Flanders to keep these for me.
The doors and windows open: South wind blowing
Warm through the clean sweet rooms, on tip-toe going,
Where many sanctities, dear and delightsome be --
They die in Flanders to keep these for me.
Daisies leaping in foam on the green grasses,
The dappled sky and the stream that sings as it passes --
These are bought with a price, a bitter fee --
They die in Flanders to keep these for me.
Scheme | aabB ccbB ddbB eebB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101001010 0011101010 01100101101 1101011111 0110100110 01001010010 01101101101 1101011111 01010101110 11011111110 11011011 1101011111 10100110110 011001111110 1111010101 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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