Analysis of Epilogue: To A Mother
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch 1863 (Bodmin, Cornwall) – 1944 (Cornwall)
On seeing her smile repeated in her daughter's eyes
A thousand songs I might have made
Of You, and only You;
A thousand thousand tongues of fire
That trembled down a golden wire
To lamp the night with stars, to braid
The morning bough with dew.
Within the greenwood girl and boy
Had loiter'd to their lure,
And men in cities closed their books
To dream of Spring and running brooks
And all that ever was of joy
For manhood to abjure.
And I'd have made them strong, so strong
Outlasting towers and towns--
Millennial shepherds 'neath the thorn
Had piped them to a world reborn,
And danced Delight the dale along
And up the daisied downs.
A thousand songs I might have made...
But you required them not;
Content to reign your little while
Ere, abdicating with a smile,
You pass'd into a shade, a shade
Immortal--and forgot!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100101000101 01011111 110101 010101110 110101010 11011111 010111 0101101 11111 01010111 11110101 01110111 1111 01111111 101001 010010101 11110111 01010101 01011 01011111 1101011 10111101 1100101 11010101 010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 805 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 24 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 324 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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