Analysis of An Exile's Song
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
My soul is like a prisoned lark,
That sings and dreams of liberty,
The nights are long, the days are dark,
Away from home, away from thee!
My only joy is in my dreams,
When I thy loving face can see.
How dreary the awakening seems,
Away from home, away from thee!
At dawn I hasten to the shore,
To gaze across the sparkling sea -
The sea is bright to me no more,
Which parts me from my home and thee.
At twilight, when the air grows chill,
And cold and leaden is the sea,
My tears like bitter dews distil,
Away from home, away from thee.
I could not live, did I not know
That thou art ever true to me,
I could not bear a doubtful woe,
Away from home, away from thee.
I could not live, did I not hear
A voice that sings the day to be,
When hitherward a ship shall steer,
To bear me back to home and thee.
Oh, when at last that day shall break
In sunshine on the dancing sea,
It will be brighter for the sake
Of my return to home and thee!
Scheme | abaB cbcB dbdb ebeB fbfB xbxb gbgb |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 11011100 01110111 01110111 11011011 11110111 110001001 01110111 11110101 11010101 01111111 11111101 1110111 01010101 11110101 01110111 11111111 11110111 11110101 01110111 11111111 01110111 110111 11111101 11111111 0110101 11110101 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 918 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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