Analysis of XV: To Lord Denman,
Thomas Noon Talfourd 1795 (Reading) – 1854 (Stafford)
RESIGNING THE OFFICE OF LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND
There is a rapture in the great All Hail
With which a nation honours thy repose,
That proves thy image deathless-that the close
Of man's remotest age, whose boyhood glows
While pondering o'er thy lineaments, shall fail
To delegate to cold historic tale
What Denman was; for dignity that flows
Not in the moulds of compliment extern,
But from the noble spirit's purest urn,
Springs vital; justice shrined from wintry flaw
By beautiful regards, and thoughts that burn
With generous ire, within the soul shall draw
No form but thine, when distant times would learn
The embodied majesty of England's Law.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001011110110 1101000111 110101101 111101101 110101111 1100101111 110110101 1101110011 100111001 1101010101 1101011101 1100010111 11001010111 1111110111 00101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 265 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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