Analysis of Hughley Steeple
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
The vane on Hughley steeple
Veers bright, a far-known sign,
And there lie Hughley people
And there lie friends of mine.
Tall in their midst the tower
Divides the shade and sun,
And the clock strikes the hour
And tells the time to none.
To south the headstones cluster,
The sunny mounds lie thick;
The dead are more in muster
At Hughley than the quick.
North, for a soon-told number,
Chill graves the sexton delves,
And steeple-shadowed slumber
The slayers of themselves.
To north, to south, lie parted,
With Hughley tower above,
The kind, the single-hearted,
The lads I used to love.
And, south or north, 'tis only
A choice of friends one knows,
And I shall ne'er be lonely
Asleep with these or those.
Scheme | ABABCDCD CECECFCF GHGHIJIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010 110111 0111010 011111 1011010 010101 0011010 010111 110110 010111 0111010 110101 1101110 110101 0101010 01101 1111110 1101001 0101010 011111 0111110 011111 0111110 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 709 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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