Analysis of They are so glad of a young companion,
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
They are so glad of a young companion,
They hail and bless me, these boys of mine,
And I whose pathway was dark and lonely
Have no more need of the sun to shine.
We'll walk in darkness, obscure, despised,
We'll mourn each other at prison gates.
These boys are splendid as mountain eagles,
But mountain eagles have eagle mates.
The girls who prattle of work and pleasure,
Of last week's picnic and this week's joys,
Of past and present, nor heed the future,
Are lagging comrades for dawnstruck boys.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101010 110111111 011111010 111110111 110100101 111101101 1111011010 110101101 0111011010 11110111 1101011010 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 506 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 390 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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