Analysis of In Ithaca
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
'Tis thought Odysseus when the strife was o'er
With all the waves and wars, a weary while,
Grew restless in his disenchanted isle,
And still would watch the sunset, from the shore,
Go down the ways of gold, and evermore
His sad heart followed after, mile on mile,
Back to the Goddess of the magic wile,
Calypso, and the love that was of yore.
Thou too, thy haven gained, must turn thee yet
To look across the sad and stormy space,
Years of a youth as bitter as the sea,
Ah, with a heavy heart, and eyelids wet,
Because, within a fair forsaken place
The life that might have been is lost to thee.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100101110 1101010101 1100100101 011101101 110111010 1111010111 1101010101 010011111 1111011111 1101010101 1101110101 110101011 0101010101 0111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 230 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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