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
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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Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet singer songwriter and entertainer now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer more…

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