Analysis of The Good Inn
Herman K Viele 1856 (New York City) – 1908 (New York)
What care if the day
Be turned to gray,
What care if the night come soon!
We may choose the pace
Who bow for grace
At the Inn of the Silver Moon.
Ah, hurrying Sirs,
Drive deep your spurs,
For it's far to the steepled town -
Where the wallet's weight
Shall fix your state
And buy for ye smile or frown.
Through our tiles of green
Do the stars between
Laugh down from the skies of June,
And there's naught to pay
For a couch of hay
At the Inn of the Silver Moon.
You laboring lout,
Pull out, pull out,
With a hand to the creaking tire,
For it's many a mile
By path and stile
To the old wife crouched by the fire.
But the door is wide
In the hedgerow side,
And we ask not bowl nor spoon
Whose draught of must
Makes soft the crust
At the Inn of the Silver Moon.
Then, here's to the Inn
Of the empty bin,
To the Host of the trackless dune!
And here's to the friend
Of the journey's end
At the Inn of the Silver Moon.
Scheme | aabccB cxdeedffbaaB gghiihjjbkkB llbmmB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1111 1110111 11101 1111 10110101 11001 1111 1111011 1011 1111 0111111 110111 10101 1110111 01111 10111 10110101 11001 1111 101101010 111001 1101 101111010 10111 0011 0111111 1111 1101 10110101 11101 10101 1011011 01101 1011 10110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 884 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 12, 12, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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