Analysis of The Forgotten
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
He shone in the senate, the camp, and the grove,
The mirror of manhood, the darling of love.
He fought for his country, the star of the brave,
And died for it’s weal when to die was to save.
And Wisdom and Valour long over him wept,
And Beauty, for ages, strewed flowers where he slept.
And the bards of the people inwrought with their lays
The light of his glory, the sound of his praise.
But afar in the foreworld have faded their strains,
And now of his being what record remains?
Within a lone valley a tomb crumbles fast,
And the name of the Sleeper is lost in the past
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001001001 0101101011 11111001101 01111111111 0100111011 010110110111 00110101111 01111001111 10100111011 01111010101 01011001101 001101011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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