Analysis of Oh Stay At Home, My Lad
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough
The land and not the sea,
And leave the soldiers at their drill,
And all about the idle hill
Shepherd your sheep with me.
Oh stay with company and mirth
And daylight and the air;
Too full already is the grave
Of fellows that were good and brave
And died bacause they were.
| Scheme | XABBA XXCCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11111101 010101 01010111 01010101 101111 11110001 01001 11010101 11010101 01110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 316 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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