Analysis of I Remember, I Remember
Thomas Hood 1799 (London) – 1845 (London)
I Remember, I Remember
I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.
I remember, I remember
The roses red and white,
The violets and the lily cups--
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburnum on his birthday,--
The tree is living yet!
I remember, I remember
Where I was used to swing,
And thought the air must rush as fresh
To swallows on the wing;
My spirit flew in feathers then
That is so heavy now,
The summer pools could hardly cool
The fever on my brow.
I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky:
It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm farther off from Heaven
Than when I was a boy.
Scheme | A Abcbxded Aexexfdf Agxgxhxh Aixixjcj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010 10101010 011111 01010101 110011 11010111 111101 11110101 111101 10101010 010101 010000101 110111 0110101 011101 01111 011101 10101010 111111 01011111 110101 11010101 111101 01011101 010111 10101010 011101 11111101 010101 11010100 111101 111101110 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 926 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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