Analysis of Occasioned By The Battle Of Waterloo February 1816
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
INTREPID sons of Albion! not by you
Is life despised; ah no, the spacious earth
Ne'er saw a race who held, by right of birth,
So many objects to which love is due:
Ye slight not life--to God and Nature true;
But death, becoming death, is dearer far,
When duty bids you bleed in open war:
Hence hath your prowess quelled that impious crew.
Heroes!--for instant sacrifice prepared;
Yet filled with ardour and on triumph bent
'Mid direst shocks of mortal accident--
To you who fell, and you whom slaughter spared
To guard the fallen, and consummate the event,
Your Country rears this sacred Monument!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011100111 1101110101 1101111111 1101011111 1111110101 1101011101 1101110101 11110110101 101101001 111101101 1101110100 1111011101 110100100001 1101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
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) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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