Analysis of Cavalry Charge At Balaclava
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
Traveller on foreign ground, whoe'er thou art,
Tell the great tidings! They went down that day
A Legion, and came back from victory
Two hundred men and Glory! On the mart
Is this 'to losc?' Yet, Stranger, thou shalt say
These were our common Britons. 'Tis our way
In England. Aye, ye heavens! I saw them part
The Death-Sea as an English dog leaps o'er
The rocks into the ocean. He goes in
Thick as a lion, and he comes out thin
As a starved wolf; but lo! he brings to shore
A life above his own, which when his heart
Bursts with that final effort, from the stones
Springs up and builds a temple o'er his bones.
Scheme | ABCABBADEEFAGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001101111 1011011111 0100111100 1101010101 1111110111 101010101101 01011101111 01111101110 0101010110 1101001111 1011111111 0101111111 1111010101 11010101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 467 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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