Analysis of The Father
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Captain Patrick Tobin, R.D.F. Suvla, August 15th, 1915
Ever his eyes are fixed on a glorious sight.
A boy is leading, calls his men to come on:
Light as a deer he leaps, slender and bright,
Up the hill, irresistible: it is won!
Ever he sees the boy against the sky,
A slender Victory, light on his golden head.
Hardly the down on his lip he hath leaped so high,
His name is writ among the undying Dead.
Captain at one-and-twenty! Much was to come,
Great things yet to be done, heights to be scaled;
Love and comradeship, all fruition of bloom.
He has attained to the highest. Not he who failed!
The mother weeps her boy who comes not again.
The Father sees him, splendid and laughing still,
Leaping like a young deer, calling his men.
The glory dazzles! The boy's keeping the hill!
Scheme | X AXAX BCBC XDXD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010111011 101111101001 01110111111 1101111001 1010100111 1011010101 010100111101 100111111111 11110100101 10110101111 1111111111 101101011 110110101111 01010111101 01011100101 1010111011 0101011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 773 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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