Analysis of From Generation To Generation
Sir Henry Newbolt 1862 (Bilston, Staffordshire) – 1938 (Kensington, London)
O Son of mine, when dusk shall find thee bending
Between a gravestone and a cradle's head---
Between the love whose name is loss unending
And the young love whose thoughts are liker dread,---
Thou too shalt groan at heart that all thy spending
Cannot repay the dead, the hungry dead.
| Scheme | ABABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain Sicilian Sestet |
| Metre | 11111111110 01010011 01011111010 001111111 11111111110 1001010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 286 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 222 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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