Analysis of I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
I hoed and trenched and weeded,
And took the flowers to fair:
I brought them home unheeded;
The hue was not the wear.
So up and down I sow them
For lads like me to find,
When I shall lie below them,
A dead man out of mind.
Some seed the birds devour,
And some the season mars,
But here and there will flower,
The solitary stars,
And fields will yearly bear them
As light-leaved spring comes on,
And luckless lads will wear them
When I am dead and gone.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF CXCX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1101010 0101011 1111010 011101 1101111 111111 1111011 011111 1101010 010101 1101110 01001 0111011 111111 0101111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 460 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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