Analysis of Defeat?
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
WHO is it speaks of defeat? —
I tell you a Cause like ours
Is greater than defeat can know;
It is the power of powers!
As surely as the earth rolls round,
As surely as the glorious sun
Follows the great world moon-wave,
Must our Cause be won!
What is defeat to us? —
Learn what a skirmish tells,
While the great Army marches on
To storm earth's Hells!
| Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101 11101110 11010111 11010110 11010111 110101001 1001111 110111 110111 110101 10110101 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 352 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 269 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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