Analysis of Austrian Alliance
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
Doth this hand live? Trust not a royal coat,
My country! Smite that cheek; there is no stain
But of the clay! no flush of shame or pain.
This is the smell o' the grave. Lift the gold crown
And see that brow. Lo! how the dews drip down
The empty house! The worm is on the walls,
And the half-shuttered lights are dull and dead
With dusty desecration. The soul fled
On a spring-day within thy palace-halls,
Hapsburg! and all the days of all the springs
Of all the ages bring it not again!
Vampyre! we wrench thee from the breathing throat
Of living Man, and he leaps up and flings
Thy rotten carcase at the heads of Kings.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 1101111111 1101111111 11011011011 0111110111 0101011101 0011011101 1100010011 1011011101 1001011101 1101011101 111110101 1101011101 110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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