Analysis of Sonnets of the Empire:Gloriana’s England
Archibald Thomas Strong 1876 – 1930
Forth sped thy gallant sailors, blithe and free,
Fearing nor foeman’s hate, nor iron clime,
Nor Lima’s flame, nor Plata’s fever-slime,
So they might give thee far Cathay in fee;
Yet swept thy poets o’er a vaster sea,
’Neath fairer gales to Indies more sublime,
Questing along the golden shores of Rhyme
For all the treasure of eternity.
One will, one end, one pulse of deep desire,
Drove Hudson through the ice to joy and death,
Sped Drake to glory through the long South roll:
And kindled Marlowe’s eager heart with fire,
Set Spenser voyaging ’neath the spirit’s breath,
And won the world for Shakespeare’s captain soul.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDECDE |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet (93%) |
Metre | 1111010101 101111101 110111101 1111110101 111101011 1101110101 101010111 1101010100 11111111010 1101011101 1111010111 0101101110 110110101 010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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