Analysis of Away, Away, From The Sultry Ways.
Freeman Edwin Miller 1864 – 1951
Away, away, from the sultry ways
Where the pleasures fall and fade,
To the bannered corn and the meadowed bloom
And the forest's cooling shade!
Afar, afar, from the rooms of care
With the toils of life distressed,
To the grassy hills and the fragrant slopes
And the quiet vales of rest!
Away from the weary, dusty town,
Where the sorrows dim the days,
To the sleeping lake and the silent stream
And the wildwood's tangled ways!
To margins wide of the woodland pools,
Where the wild birds troll their songs,
Where the lilies laugh and the willows wave,
And the pleasures dance in throngs!
The dark-eyed nymphs and the fairy elves
In their robes of laughing smiles,
In the forests romp 'neath the leafy trees,
Through the narrow long-drawn aisles.
The bannered corn and the golden wheat
In the ties of bliss are bound;
The sweetest joys and highest hopes
On the shady farms are found.
The raptures reign in the holy scenes,
And the old grow young once more,
To roam the meadows and live again
In the happy years of yore.
Then haste, O, haste, to the country downs,
Where the valleys are sweet with joys,
And the soul grows young, and the heart is light,
And the bosom is like a boy's!
Scheme | ABXB XCDC XAXA XEXE XFXF XGDG XHXH XIXI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010110101 1010101 10110011 0010101 010110111 1011101 1010100101 0010111 011010101 1010101 1010100101 001101 11011011 1011111 101010011 0010101 011100101 0111101 0010110101 1010111 01100101 0011111 01010101 1010111 01100101 0011111 11010101 0010111 111110101 10101111 0011100111 00101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,172 |
Words | 223 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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