Analysis of The New Recruit
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
The lads were once my comrades,
They stay at home content.
And now's the time of cricket,
They count the days well spent.
They walk with girls o' Sundays,
All in their Sunday clothes;
And of a Sunday evening
Go where good liquor flows.
Their way's no longer my way,
For I must follow now
The drum-tap and the bugle,
While they're for shop and plough.
Good-bye, good-bye, kind people,
And all I leave behind,
To girls that used to kiss me,
To one was never kind.
Good-bye, my girl unwilling,
I shall not vex you sore,
For I have taken the shilling
And I come home no more.
I heard the drums a-drumming,
And I ran out to see;
The soldiers and the fighting,
They mattered nought to me.
Good-bye, my girl that grieved me.
The bugles whistled, Come.
And I, -- stepped in the roadway
And marched beside the drum.
Lord, I was proud, uplifted.
I held my head so high;
And all the girls were doating
With love as we went by!
The boys who stood and jeered me
May live to three-score-ten,
While I'm cut down at morning
Among the fighting men.
But Lord, the people shouting!
The glory tasted sweet,
And the eyes of the girls all doating
As we marched down the street.
Scheme | XAXA XXBX CDED EFGF BHBH BGBG GICI XJBJ GKBK BLBL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (90%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 010111 111110 0101110 110111 111111 10111 010110 111101 1111011 111101 0110010 111101 1111110 011101 1111111 111101 1111010 111111 11110010 011111 1101010 011111 0100010 110111 1111111 010101 011001 010101 1111100 111111 010101 111111 0111011 111111 1111110 010101 1101010 010101 00110111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,124 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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