Analysis of Beyond The Barn
John Frederick Freeman 1880 – 1929
I rose up with the sun
And climbed the hill.
I saw the white mists run
And shadows run
Down into hollow woods.
I went with the white clouds
That swept the hill.
A wind struck the low hedge trees
And clustering trees,
And rocked in each tall elm.
The long afternoon was calm
When down the hill
I came, and felt the air cool,
The shadows cool;
And I walked on footsore,
Saying, "But two hours more,
Then, the last hill....
Surely this road I know,
These hills I know,
All the unknown is known,
"And that barn, black and lone,
High on the hill--
There the long road ends,
The long day ends,
And travelling is over." ...
Nor thought nor travelling's over.
Here on the hill
The black barn is a shivering ruin,
A windy cold ruin.
I must go on and on,
Where often my thought has gone,
Up hill, down hill,
Beyond this ruin of Time;
Forgetting Time
I must follow my thought still.
Scheme | ABAAX XBCCX XBDDE EBFFG GBHHE EBAAX XBIIB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (43%) |
Metre | 111101 0101 110111 011 101101 111011 1101 0110111 01001 010111 010111 1101 1101011 011 01111 1011101 1011 101111 1111 100111 011101 1101 10111 0111 0100110 111110 1101 0111010010 010110 111101 1101111 1111 0111011 0101 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 855 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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