Analysis of Fortune of War
Herbert Asquith 1881 – 1947
THE far guns boom: shell-struck the church is rolled
Skyward athunder, dust of rose and gold:
The staring villa stands. So goes the War:
The limelight lives: extinguished is the star.
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111110111 10111101 0101011101 011010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 188 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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