Analysis of Austrian Alliance



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.


Scheme ABBCCDEEDFGAFF
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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Sydney Thompson Dobell

Sydney Thompson Dobell, English poet and critic, was born at Cranbrook, Kent. more…

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