Analysis of An Oxford Idyll
Thomas Edward Brown 1830 – 1897
Ah little mill, you're rumbling still,
Ah sunset flecked with gold!
Ah deepening tinge, ah purple fringe
Of lilac as of old!
Ah hawthorn hedge, ah light-won pledge
Of kisses warm and plenty,
When she was true, and twenty-two,
And I was two-and-twenty.
I don't know how she broke her vow,
She said that I was "horty"
And there's the mill a goin' still,
And I am five-and-forty.
And sooth to tell, 'twas just as well,
Her aitches were uncertain;
Her ways though nice, not point-device;
Her father liked his" Burton."
But there's a place you cannot trace,
So spare the fond endeavour,
A cloudless sky, where Kate and I
Are twenty-two for ever.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGBAEHIJIKLML |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 110111001 11111 110011101 11111 1111111 1101010 11110101 0111010 11111101 111111 0101011 0111010 01111111 010010 01111101 0101110 11011101 1101010 01011101 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 486 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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