Analysis of King Arthur's Men Have Come Again
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
[Written while a field-worker in the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois.]
King Arthur's men have come again.
They challenge everywhere
The foes of Christ's Eternal Church.
Her incense crowns the air.
The heathen knighthood cower and curse
To hear the bugles ring,
But spears are set, the charge is on,
Wise Arthur shall be king!
And Cromwell's men have come again,
I meet them in the street.
Stern but in this — no way of thorns
Shall snare the children's feet.
The reveling foemen wreak but waste,
A sodden poisonous band.
Fierce Cromwell builds the flower-bright towns,
And a more sunlit land!
And Lincoln's men have come again.
Up from the South he flayed,
The grandsons of his foes arise
In his own cause arrayed.
They rise for freedom and clean laws
High laws, that shall endure.
Our God establishes his arm
And makes the battle sure!
Scheme | X ABXBXCXC ADXDXEXE AFXFXGXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101100010011101 11011101 11010 01110101 001101 01011001 110101 11110111 110111 01011101 111001 11011111 110101 01001111 0101001 110101011 00111 01011101 110111 0111101 011101 11110011 111101 101010011 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 842 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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