Analysis of Youth in the Skies
Herbert Asquith 1881 – 1947
These who were children yesterday
Now move in lovely flight,
Swift-glancing as the shooting stars
That cleave the summer night;
A moment flashed, they came and went,
Horizons rise and fall,
The speed of valour lifts them up
And strength obeys their call.
The downs below are breathing peace
With thyme and butterflies,
And sheep at pasture in the shade-
And now from English skies
These who were children yesterday
Look down with other eyes;
Man’s desperate folly was not theirs
But theirs the sacrifice.
Old men may wage a war of words,
Another race are these,
Who flash to glory dawn and night
Above the starry seas.
Scheme | Abxb xcxc xdxd Adxx xebe |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101010 110101 11010101 110101 01011101 010101 0111111 010111 01011101 11010 01110001 011101 1101010 111101 11010111 11010 11110111 010111 11110101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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