Analysis of When It is Finished
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
WHEN it is finished, Father, and we set
The war-stained buckler and the bright blade by,
Bid us remember then what bloody sweat,
What thorns, what agony
Purchased our wreaths of harvest and ripe ears,
Whose empty hands, whose empty hearts, whose tears
Ransomed the days to be.
We leave them to Thee, Father, we've no price,
No utmost treasure of the seas and lands,
No words, no deeds, to pay their sacrifice.
Only while England stands,
Their pearl, their pride, their altar, not their grave,
Bid us remember in what days they gave
All that mankind may give
That we might live.
Scheme | AXABXXB CDCDEEXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1111010011 01110000111 1101011101 111100 10101110011 1101110111 10111 1111110111 111010101 111111110 101101 1111110111 1101001111 111111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 571 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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