Analysis of My Father's Halls
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
My father's halls, so rich and rare,
Are desolate and bleak and bare;
My father's heart and halls are one,
Since I, their life and light, am gone.
O, valiant knight, with hand of steel
And heart of gold, hear my appeal:
Release me from the spoiler's charms,
And bear me to my father's arms.
Scheme | AAXX BBCC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11011101 11000101 11010111 11110111 11011111 01111101 0111011 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 291 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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