Analysis of Into My Heart an Air that Kills
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01111111 111101 11110101 111111 11011110 111101 0101111 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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