Analysis of Outward Bound
Sir Henry Newbolt 1862 (Bilston, Staffordshire) – 1938 (Kensington, London)
Dear Earth, near Earth, the clay that made us men,
The land we sowed,
The hearth that glowed---
O Mother, must we bid farewell to thee?
Fast dawns the last dawn, and what shall comfort then
The lonely hearts that roam the outer sea?
Gray wakes the daybreak, the shivering sails are set,
To misty deeps
The channel sweeps---
O Mother, think on us who think on thee!
Earth-home, birth-home, with love remember yet
The sons in exile on the eternal sea.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 0111 0111 110111111 11011011101 0101110101 11010100111 1101 0101 1101111111 1111110101 0101100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 446 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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