Analysis of Whene'er I See Those Smiling Eyes

Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)



Whene'er I see those smiling eyes,
So full of hope, and joy, and light,
As if no cloud could ever rise,
To dim a heaven so purely bright --
I sigh to think how soon that brow
In grief may lose its every ray,
And that light heart, so joyous now,
Almost forget it once was gay.

For time will come with all its blights,
The ruin'd hope, the friend unkind,
And love, that leaves, where'er it lights,
A chill'd or burning heart behind:
While youth, that now like snow appears,
Ere sullied by the darkening rain,
When once 'tis touch'd by sorrow's tears,
Can never shine so bright again.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 11110101 11111101 110101101 11111111 011111001 01111101 1011111 11111111 01010101 01111011 01110101 11111101 110101001 1111111 11011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 589
Words 112
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 221
Words per stanza (avg) 55
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet singer songwriter and entertainer now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer more…

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