Analysis of The Aerodrome
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
So now the aerodrome goes up
Upon my father's fields,
And gone is all the golden crop
And all the pleasant yields.
They tear the trees up, branch and root,
They kill the hedges green,
As though some force, malign and brute,
Ravaged the peace serene.
There where he used to sit and gaze
With blue and quiet eyes,
Watching his comely cattle graze,
The walls begin to rise.
What place for robin or for wren,
For thrush and blackbird's call?
Now there shall be but flying men
Nor any bird at all.
'Twas well he did not stay to know,
Defaced and all defiled
The quiet fields of long ago,
Dear to him as a child.
But when the tale was told to me
I felt such piercing pain,
They tore my heart up with the tree
That will not leaf again.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HBHX IXIF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 1101011 011101 01110101 010101 11011101 110101 11110101 100101 11111101 110101 10110101 010111 11110111 11011 11111101 110111 11111111 01011 01011101 111101 11011111 111101 11111101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 713 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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