Analysis of A Song Of Going
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
I would not like to live to be very old,
To be stripped cold and bare
Of all my leafage that was green and gold
In the delicious air.
I would not choose to live to be left alone,
The children gone away,
And the true love that I have leant upon
No more my staff and stay.
I would not live to stretch my shrivelled hands
To an old fire died low,
Minding me of the long-lost happy lands
And children long ago.
Let me be gone while I am leafy yet
And while my birds still sing,
Lest leafless, birdless, my dull heart forget
That ever it had Spring.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111101 111101 111111101 000101 11111111101 010101 00111111001 111101 111111111 1111011 1011011101 010101 1111111101 011111 110111101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 537 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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