Analysis of Yattendon
Sir Henry Newbolt 1862 (Bilston, Staffordshire) – 1938 (Kensington, London)
Among the woods and tillage
That fringe the topmost downs,
All lonely lies the village,
Far off from seas and towns.
Yet when her own folk slumbered
I heard within her street
Murmur of men unnumbered
And march of myriad feet.
For all she lies so lonely,
Far off from towns and seas,
The village holds not only
The roofs beneath her trees:
While Life is sweet and tragic
And Death is veiled and dumb,
Hither, by singer's magic,
The pilgrim world must come.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 11011 1101010 111101 110111 110101 10111 0111001 1111110 111101 0101110 010101 1111010 011101 1011010 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 448 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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