Analysis of The Old Love
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Out of my door I step into
The country, all her scent and dew,
Nor travel there by a hard road,
Dusty and far from my abode.
The country washes to my door
Green miles on miles in soft uproar,
The thunder of the woods, and then
The backwash of green surf again.
Beyond the feverfew and stocks,
The guelder-rose and hollyhocks;
Outside my trellised porch a tree
Of lilac frames a sky for me.
A stretch of primrose and pale green
To hold the tender Hesper in;
Hesper that by the moon makes pale
Her silver keel and silver sail.
The country silence wraps me quite,
Silence and song and pure delight;
The country beckons all the day
Smiling, and but a step away.
This is that country seen across
How many a league of love and loss,
Prayed for and longed for, and as far
As fountains in the desert are.
This is that country at my door,
Whose fragrant airs run on before,
And call me when the first birds stir
In the green wood to walk with her.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF XXGG HHII JJKK CCLL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 11111101 01010101 11011011 10011101 01010111 1111011 01010101 0111101 0101001 011010 1111101 1110111 0111011 11010100 10110111 01010101 01010111 10010101 01010101 10010101 11110101 110011101 11011011 11000101 11110111 11011101 01110111 00111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 919 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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