Analysis of The Swallows
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
From Jean Pierre Claris Florian
I love to see the swallows come
At my window twittering,
Bringing from their southern home
News of the approaching spring.
'Last year's nest,' they softly say,
'Last year's love again shall see;
Only faithful lovers may
Tell you of the coming glee.'
When the first fell touch of frost
Strips the wood of faded leaves,
Calling all their wingèd host,
The swallows meet above the eaves
'Come away, away,' they cry,
'Winter's snow is hastening;
True hearts winter comes not nigh,
They are ever in the spring.'
If by some unhappy fate,
Victim of a cruel mind,
One is parted from her mate
And within a cage confined,
Swiftly will the swallow die,
Pining for her lover's bower,
And her lover watching nigh
Dies beside her in an hour.
Scheme | X XAXABCBC XDXDEAEA FGFGEHEH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110100 11110101 11101 1011101 1100101 1111101 1110111 1010101 1110101 1011111 1011101 1011111 01010101 1010111 1011100 1110111 1110001 1110101 1010101 1110101 0010101 1010101 10101010 0010101 10100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 743 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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