Analysis of Though the Last Glimpse of Erin With Sorrow I See

Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)



Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,
Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;
In exile thy bosom shall still be my home,
And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

To the gloom of some desert or cold rocky shore,
Where the eye of the stranger can haunt us no more,
I will fly with my Coulin, and think the rough wind
Less rude than the foes we leave frowning behind.

And I'll gaze on thy gold hair as graceful it wreathes,
And hang o'er thy soft harp, as wildly it breathes;
Nor dread that the cold-hearted Saxon will tear
One chord from that harp, or one lock from that hair.


Scheme AABB CCDD AXEE
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 101111011011 101011111011 0111011111 011111001011 101111011101 101101011111 11111101011 11101111001 011111111011 011011111011 11101101011 11111111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 608
Words 120
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 156
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet singer songwriter and entertainer now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer more…

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