Analysis of Home 3
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
Often I had gone this way before
But now it seemed I never could be
And never had been anywhere else;
'Twas home; one nationality
We had, I and the birds that sang,
One memory.
They welcomed me. I had come back
That eve somehow from somewhere far:
The April mist, the chill, the calm,
Meant the same thing familiar
And pleasant to us, and strange too,
Yet with no bar.
The thrush on the oaktop in the lane
Sang his last song, or last but one;
And as he ended, on the elm
Another had but just begun
His last; they knew no more than I
The day was done.
Then past his dark white cottage front
A labourer went along, his tread
Slow, half with weariness, half with ease;
And, through the silence, from his shed
The sound of sawing rounded all
That silence said.
Scheme | XAXAXA XBXXXB XCXCXC XDXDXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111101 111111011 01011101 1110100 11100111 1100 11011111 111111 01010101 1011010 01011011 1111 01101001 11111111 01110101 01011101 11111111 0111 11111101 0110111 111100111 01010111 01110101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 741 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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