This is an analysis of Quiet Eyes by Katharine Tynan.
The boys come home, come home from war,
With quiet eyes for quiet things --…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fcfc gXgX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01111101 01011101 010101001 011101 11011111 01010101 11010101 101101 11111101 0101101000 010000111 1100101 01011101 010111011 01011101 0010101 01110011 11111111 01100101 0110001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
of, eyes
Anaphora
a, the
