Analysis of Echo
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night,
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light.
Yet Love hath echoes truer far,
And far more sweet,
Than e'er beneath the moonlight's star,
Of horn or lute, or soft guitar,
The songs repeat.
'Tis when the sigh, in youth sincere,
And only then --
The sigh that's breathed for one to hear,
Is by that one, that only dear,
Breathed back again!
Scheme | ABAAB CDCCD EFXEF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010101 11011 11111111 010110101 11001 11110101 0111 11001011 11111101 0101 11010101 0101 01111111 11111101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 450 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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