Analysis of A Parting Song
Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1793 (Liverpool, Lancashire) – 1835 (Dublin, County Dublin)
When will ye think of me, my friends?
When will ye think of me?
When the last red light, the farewell of day,
From the rock and the river is passing away,
When the air with a deep'ning hush is fraught,
And the heart grows burden'd with tender thought
Then let it be!
When will ye think of me, kind friends?
When will ye think of me?
When the rose of the rich midsummer time
Is fill'd with the hues of its glorious prime;
When ye gather its bloom, as in bright hours fled,
From the walks where my footsteps no more may tread;
Then let it be!
When will ye think of me, sweet friends?
When will ye think of me?
When the sudden tears o'erflow your eye
At the sound of some olden melody;
When ye hear the voice of a mountain stream,
When ye feel the charm of a poet's dream;
Then let it be!
Thus let my memory be with you, friends!
Thus ever think of me!
Kindly and gently, but as of one
For whom 'tis well to be fled and gone;
As of a bird from a chain unbound,
As of a wanderer whose home is found;
So let it be.
Scheme | aBccddB aBeeffB aBxbggB abxxhhb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 111111 101110111 101001011001 1011011111 0011101101 1111 11111111 111111 1011011101 11101111001 111011101101 1011111111 1111 11111111 111111 10101111 1011110100 1110110101 1110110101 1111 1111001111 110111 100101111 111111101 110110101 1101001111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 993 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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