Analysis of The Boy
William Allingham 1824 (Ballyshannon) – 1889 (Hampstead)
The Boy from his bedroom-window
Look'd over the little town,
And away to the bleak black upland
Under a clouded moon.
The moon came forth from her cavern,
He saw the sudden gleam
Of a tarn in the swarthy moorland;
Or perhaps the whole was a dream.
For I never could find that water
In all my walks and rides:
Far-off, in the Land of Memory,
That midnight pool abides.
Many fine things had I glimpse of,
And said, 'I shall.find them one day.'
Whether within or without me
They were, I cannot say.
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBCB XDCD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 0111110 1100101 001101110 100101 01111010 110101 10100101 10101101 111011110 011101 110011100 11101 10111111 0111111 10011011 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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