Analysis of Back To The Land
Violet Jacob 1863 – 1946
Out in the upland places,
I see both dale and down,
And the ploughed earth with open scores
Turning the green to brown.
The bare bones of the country
Lie gaunt in winter days,
Grim fastnesses of rock and scaur,
Sure, while the year decays.
And, as the autumn withers,
And the winds strip the tree,
The companies of buried folk
Rise up and speak with me; -
From homesteads long forgotten,
From graves by church and yew,
They come to walk with noiseless tread
Upon the land they knew; -
Men who have tilled the pasture
The writhen thorn beside,
Women within grey vanished walls
Who bore and loved and died.
And when the great town closes
Upon me like a sea,
Daylong, above its weary din,
I hear them call to me.
Dead folk, the roofs are round me,
To bar out field and hill,
And yet I hear you on the wind
Calling and calling still;
And while, by street and pavement,
The day runs slowly through,
My soul, across these haunted downs,
Goes forth and walks with you.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC XBXB XDXD XEXE XBXB BFXF XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1001010 111101 00111101 100111 0111010 110101 111101 110101 0101010 001101 01001101 110111 111010 111101 1111111 010111 1111010 01101 10011101 110101 0101110 011101 1011101 111111 1101111 111101 01111101 100101 0111010 011101 11011101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 951 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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