Analysis of The Old Home Calls
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Come back to me, little dancing feet that roam the wide world o'er,
I long for the lilt of your flying steps in my silent rooms once more;
Come back to me, little voices gay with laughter and with song,
Come back, little hearts beating high with hopes, I have missed and mourned you long.
My roses bloom in my garden walks all sweet and wet with the dew,
My lights shine down on the long hill road the waning twilights through,
The swallows flutter about my eaves as in the years of old,
And close about me their steadfast arms the lisping pine trees fold.
But I weary for you at morn and eve, O, children of my love,
Come back to me from your pilgrim ways, from the seas and plains ye rove,
Come over the meadows and up the lane to my door set open wide,
And sit ye down where the red light shines from my welcoming fireside.
I keep for you all your childhood dreams, your gladness and delights,
The joy of days in the sun and rain, the sleep of carefree nights,
All the sweet faiths ye have lost and sought again shall be your own,
Darlings, come to my empty heartI am old and still and alone!
Scheme | XXAA BBCC XXDD EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1111101011101110 11101111010110111 111110101110011 11101101111110111 1101011011101101 11111011101011 010100111100111 0101111101111 1110111101110111 1111111011010111 1100101011111101 0111101111110010 1111111111001 01110010101111 101111101011111 1011110111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,093 |
Words | 216 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 53 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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