Analysis of There Are Sounds of Mirth
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
There are sounds of mirth in the night-air ringing,
And lamps from every casement shown;
While voices blithe within are singing,
That seem to say "Come," in every tone.
Ah! once how light, in Life's young season,
My heart had leap'd at that sweet lay;
Nor paused to ask of greybeard Reason
Should I the syren call obey.
And, see -- the lamps still livelier glitter,
The syren lips more fondly sound;
No, seek, ye nymphs, some victim fitter
To sink in your rosy bondage bound.
Shall a bard,whom not the world in arms,
Could bend to tyranny's rude countroul,
Thus quail, at sight of woman's charms,
And yield to a smile his freeborn soul?
Thus sung the sage, while, slyly stealing,
The nymphs their fetters around him cast,
And -- their laughing eyes, the while, concealing --
Led Freedom's Bard their slave at last.
For the Poet's heart, still prone to loving,
Was like that rock of the Druid race,
Which the gentlest touch at once set moving,
But all earth's power couldn't cast from its base.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGDGX AHAHAIAI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111001110 01110011 110101110 1111101001 111101110 11111111 11111110 1101101 0101110010 0111101 111111010 110110101 10110101 111111 11111101 011011101 110111010 011100111 0110101010 11011111 1010111110 111110101 10100111110 11110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,000 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 255 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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