Analysis of Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle of Our Own
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
Oh! had we some bright little isle of our own,
In a blue summer ocean, far off and alone,
Where a leaf never dies in the still blooming bowers,
And the bee banquets on through a whole year of flowers;
Where the sun loves to pause
With so fond a delay,
That the night only draws
A thin veil o'er the day;
Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we live,
Is worth the best joy that life elsewhere can give.
There with souls ever ardent and pure as the clime,
We should love, as they loved in the first golden time;
The glow of the sunshine, the balm of the air,
Would steal to our hearts, and make all summer there.
With affection as free
From decline as the bowers,
And, with hope, like the bee,
Living always on flowers,
Our life should resemble a long day of light,
And our death come on, holy and calm as the night.
Scheme | AABBCDCDXX EEFFGBGBHH |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 111111011101 001101011001 1011010011010 0011011011110 101111 111001 101101 0111001 11011111111 1101111111 111101001101 111111001101 0110101101 111101011101 101011 1011010 011101 101110 101101001111 0101111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 828 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 316 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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