Analysis of Hounds going home in the Dark
William Henry Ogilvie 1869 (Scotland) – 1963
Rustle of feet in the roadside grass,
Trample of horses' hoofs, and - Hark!
Blast of an anxious horn! Hounds pass;
Hounds going home in the dark.
Bold was our huntsman galloping free
On a difficult line to the hills to-day,
But his hand is trembling against his knee
At the hint of a light on the King's Highway.
‘ Car!' And the gold spreads over the sky ;
‘ Keep to the front there! Stop them, Mark!
' Toot-toot-too-oot ! - ' Halloo, there !-Hi ! ‘-
Hounds going home in the dark.
Crack of a whip as the headlights near-
Blind in the blaze they group and grope.
‘ Curse the feller, and can't he hear?
Put 'em across, there I-Cope, boys, cope! '
When never a star is hung in the sky,
With never a lamp or a lantern spark,
Huntsman and Whips go groping by,
Blowing them home in the dark.
Scheme | abaBcdcd ebeBxfxf ebeb |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10110011 10110101 11110111 1101001 1110101001 10100110111 11111000111 1011011011 100111001 11011111 1111111 1101001 11011011 10011101 10100111 110111111 1100111001 1100110101 10011101 1011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 801 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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