Analysis of Who Goes Home?
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 (Kensington, London) – 1936 (Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)
In the city set upon slime and loam
They cry in their parliament 'Who goes home?'
And there comes no answer in arch or dome,
For none in the city of graves goes home.
Yet these shall perish and understand,
For God has pity on this great land.
Men that are men again; who goes home?
Tocsin and trumpeter! Who goes home?
For there's blood on the field and blood on the foam
And blood on the body when Man goes home.
And a voice valedictory . . . Who is for Victory?
Who is for Liberty? Who goes home?
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0010101101 1101100111 0111100111 1100101111 11110001 111101111 111101111 10100111 11110101101 0110101111 0010100111100 111100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 605 |
| Words | 100 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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