Analysis of Let Erin Remember the Days of Old
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
Let Erin remember the days of old,
Ere her faithless sons betray'd her;
When Malachi wore the collar of gold,
Which he won from her proud invader,
When her kings, with standard of green unfurl'd,
Led the Red-Branch Knights to danger!
Ere the emerald gem of the western world
Was set in the crown of a stranger.
On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays,
When the clear cold eve's declining,
He sees the round towers of other days
In the wave beneath him shining:
Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime,
Catch a glimpse of the days that are over;
Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time,
For the long-faded glories they cover.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100100111 1011010 11101011 111101010 1011101101 10111110 1010110101 110011010 111110101 10111010 1101101101 00101110 11100100101 1011011110 110110111 1011010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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