Analysis of The Too-Late Born
Archibald MacLeish 1892 (Glencoe) – 1982 (Boston)
We too, we too, descending once again
The hills of our own land, we too have heard
Far off --- Ah, que ce cor a longue haleine ---
The horn of Roland in the passages of Spain,
The first, the second blast, the failing third,
And with the third turned back and climbed once more
The steep road southward, and heard faint the sound
Of swords, of horses, the disastrous war,
And crossed the dark defile at last, and found
At Roncevaux upon the darkening plain
The dead against the dead and on the silent ground
The silent slain---
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Metre | 1111010101 01110111111 111111011 011100010011 0101010101 0101110111 0111001101 1111000101 010111101 110101001 010101010101 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 406 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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