Analysis of The Doves
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
The house where I was born,
Where I was young and gay,
Grows old amid its corn,
Amid its scented hay.
Moan of the cushat dove,
In silence rich and deep;
The old head I love
Nods to its quiet sleep.
Where once were nine and ten
Now two keep house together;
The doves moan and complain
All day in the still weather.
What wind, bitter and great,
Has swept the country's face,
Altered, made desolate
The heart-remembered place ?
What wind, bitter and wild,
Has swept the towering trees
Beneath whose shade a child
Long since gathered heartease ?
Under the golden eaves
The house is still and sad,
As though it grieves and grieves
For many a lass and lad.
The cushat doves complain
All day in the still weather;
Where once were nine or ten
But two keep house together.
Scheme | abab cdcd efgF xhxh ixih jkjk gFef |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011111 111101 110111 011101 11011 010101 01111 111101 110101 1111010 011001 1100110 111001 110101 101100 010101 111001 1101001 011101 11101 100101 011101 111101 1100101 01101 1100110 110111 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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