Analysis of The Trumpet Call
Alfred Noyes 1880 (Wolverhampton) – 1958 (Isle of Wight)
Trumpeter, sound for the last Crusade!
Sound for the fire of the red-cross kings,
Sound for the passion, the splendour, the pity
That swept the world for a dead Man's sake,
Sound, till the answering trumpet rings
Clear from the heights of the holy City,
Sound till the lions of England awake,
Sound for the tomb that our lives have betrayed;
O'er broken shrine and abandoned wall,
Trumpeter, sound the great recall,
Trumpeter, rally us, rally us, rally us;
Sound for the last Crusade!
Trumpeter, sound for the splendour of God!
Sound the music whose name is law,
Whose service is perfect freedom still,
The order august that rules the stars.
Bid the anarchs of night withdraw,
Too long the destroyers have worked their will,
Sound for the last, the last of the wars.
Sound for the heights that our fathers trod,
When truth was truth and love was love,
With a hell beneath, but a heaven above,
Trumpeter, rally us, up to the heights of it!
Sound for the City of God.
Scheme | ABCDBCDAEEXA FGHXGHXFIIXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100110101 1101010111 1101001010 110110111 110100101 1101101010 1101011001 11011101101 1010100101 1001011 100101101101 110101 100110111 10101111 110101101 010101101 1011101 1100101111 110101101 1101110101 11110111 10101101001 100101110111 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 950 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 378 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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