Catullus: XXXI
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
(After passing Sirmione, April 1887.)
Sirmio, thou dearest dear of strands
That Neptune strokes in lake and sea,
With what high joy from stranger lands
Doth thy old friend set foot on thee!
Yea, barely seems it true to me
That no Bithynia holds me now,
But calmly and assuringly
Around me stretchest homely Thou.
Is there a scene more sweet than when
Our clinging cares are undercast,
And, worn by alien moils and men,
The long untrodden sill repassed,
We press the pined for couch at last,
And find a full repayment there?
Then hail, sweet Sirmio; thou that wast,
And art, mine own unrivalled Fair!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A BCBCCDAD EFEFFGFG |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 110 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
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