Homeward Bound LXXVI
Hussars are blowing their trumpets,And to thy doors they ride.A garland of wreathed rosesI bring to thee, my bride.
That were a boisterous household,Landpests and soldiery!And in thy little heart, dear,The goodliest quarters be.
Words in this poem
- trumpets n.
- A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.
- boisterous a.
- Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. [OE. boistous; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwyst wild, savage, wildness, ferocity, bwystus ferocious.]
- soldiery n.
- A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Homeward Bound LXXVI is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems and Ballads, Project Gutenberg ebook #31726, the Emma Lazarus translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Heinrich Heine, Homeward Bound LXXVI, in Poems and Ballads (1881), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #31726, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/heine-poems-ballads/homeward-bound-lxxvi.html, id L15401.
Form and metre
Homeward Bound LXXVI is 8 lines in 2 stanzas of 4 lines each. 80% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 6.9 syllables. 3 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 12% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -A-A trumpets · rideA · roses · brideA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Hussars are blowing their trumpets, | 8 | /˘·/˘·/˘ |
| And to thy doors they ride. | 6 | ······ |
| A garland of wreathed roses | 7 | ·/˘··/˘ |
| I bring to thee, my bride. | 6 | ······ |
| That were a boisterous household, | 7 | ···/˘/· |
| Landpests and soldiery! | 6 | ···/˘˘ |
| And in thy little heart, dear, | 7 | ···/˘·· |
| The goodliest quarters be. | 6 | ···/˘· |
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