Analysis of On Music
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
When through life unblest we rove,
Losing all that made life dear,
Should some notes we used to love,
In days of boyhood, meet our ear,
Oh! how welcome breathes the strain!
Wakening thoughts that long have slept,
Kindling former smiles again
In faded eyes that long have wept.
Like the gale, that sighs along
Beds of oriental flowers,
Is the grateful breath of song,
That once was heard in happier hours.
Fill'd with balm the gale sighs on,
Though the flowers have sunk in death;
So, when pleasure's dream is gone,
Its memory lives in Music's breath.
Music, oh, how faint, how weak,
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should Feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her soul so well?
Friendship's balmy words may feign,
Love's are even more false than they;
Oh! 'tis only music's strain
Can sweetly soothe, and not betray.
Scheme | XXXXABXB CDCDXEXE FGFGAHAH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 1011111 1111111 01111101 1110101 111111 1010101 01011111 1011101 1101010 1010111 1111010010 1110111 10101101 111111 110010101 1011111 1010111 1110101 11110111 110111 11101111 1110101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 835 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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