Analysis of The Ash Grove
Edward Thomas 1878 (London Borough of Lambeth) – 1917 (Pas-de-Calais)
Half of the grove stood dead, and those that yet lived made
Little more than the dead ones made of shade.
If they led to a house, long before they had seen its fall:
But they welcomed me; I was glad without cause and delayed.
Scarce a hundred paces under the trees was the interval -
Paces each sweeter than the sweetest miles - but nothing at all,
Not even the spirits of memory and fear with restless wing,
Could climb down in to molest me over the wall
That I passed through at either end without noticing.
And now an ash grove far from those hills can bring
The same tranquillity in which I wander a ghost
With a ghostly gladness, as if I heard a girl sing
The song of the Ash Grove soft as love uncrossed,
And then in a crowd or in distance it were lost,
But the moment unveiled something unwilling to die
And I had what I most desired, without search or desert or cost.
Scheme | AABA XBCB CCXC AXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 110111011111 1011011111 11110110111111 11101111011001 101010100110100 101101010111011 1100101100011101 111010111001 1111110101100 01111111111 0110111001 101011111011 0110111111 010011010101 1010011001011 01111101001111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 868 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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