Analysis of [Month of) July
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
The Kings come riding back from the Crusade,
The purple Kings and all their mounted men;
They fill the street with clamorous cavalcade;
The Kings have broken down the Saracen.
Singing a great song of the eastern wars,
In crimson ships across the sea they came,
With crimson sails and diamonded dark oars,
That made the Mediterranean flash with flame.
And reading how, in that far month, the ranks
Formed on the edge of the desert, armoured all,
I wish to God that I had been with them
When the first Norman leapt upon the wall,
And Godfrey led the foremost of the Franks,
And young Lord Raymond stormed Jerusalem.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFXFEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011001 0101011101 11011110 01110101 1001110101 0101010111 11010111 11000100111 0101011101 1101101011 1111111111 1011010101 010101101 0111010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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