Analysis of Hounds!



There is music on disc and on wireless,
Band-music, dance-tunes for the tireless,
Sweet music from day unto day;
But the music a man will remember
Shakes down the last leaves of November,
And speeds the wild geese in December,
And greets the first oak-bud in May.
What string with such beauty can tremble?
What bugle such raptures assemble?
What trumpet can sound such a call?
Is there ever a melody nearer
The quick-beating heart of the hearer?
Is there ever a tune that is dearer
As it chooses a dance for us all?
No song is so sweet in the setting,
No lilt so forbids all forgetting
Or lingers so long by the way;
When the shadows of night gather o’er us,
And the scarlet has faded before us,
The ring of that ravishing chorus
Dies not with the death of the day.


Scheme ABCDDDCEEFDDDFGGCBBBC
Poetic Form
Metre 1110110110 1101110100 11011101 1010011010 110111010 010110010 01011101 111110110 11011010 11011101 1110010010 011011010 1110011110 111001111 111110010 111011010 11011101 101111011 0010110011 011110010 11101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 774
Words 146
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 600
Words per stanza (avg) 144
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 2023

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William Henry Ogilvie

 · 1869 · Scotland

William Henry Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman. more…

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