Analysis of Bramber.
Edward Shanks 1892 (London) – 1953
Before the downs in their great horse-shoes rise,
I know a village where the Adur runs,
Blown by sweet winds and by beneficent suns
Visited and made ripe beneath kind skies.
Light and delight are in the children's eyes
And there the mothers sit, the fortunate ones,
Blest in their daughters, happy in their sons,
And the old men are beautiful and wise.
There stand the downs, great, close, tall, friendly, still,
Linked up by grassy saddles, hill on hill,
And steep the village in unending peace
And to the north the plains in order lie,
Heavy with crops and woods alternately
And lively with low sounds that never cease.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CCDXXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011111 110101011 1111010101 1000110111 1001100101 01010101001 1011010011 0011110001 1101111101 1111010111 0101000101 0101010101 1011011000 0101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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