Analysis of 21st September 1870
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
Speak low, speak little; who may sing
While yonder cannon-thunders boom?
Watch, shuddering, what each day may bring:
Nor 'pipe amid the crack of doom.'
And yet-the pines sing overhead,
The robins by the alder-pool,
The bees about the garden-bed,
The children dancing home from school.
And ever at the loom of Birth
The mighty Mother weaves and sings:
She weaves-fresh robes for mangled earth;
She sings-fresh hopes for desperate things.
And thou, too: if through Nature's calm
Some strain of music touch thine ears,
Accept and share that soothing balm,
And sing, though choked with pitying tears.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11110111 11010101 110011111 11010111 01011101 01010101 01010101 01010111 01010111 01010101 11111101 11111101 01111101 11110111 01011101 011111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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