Analysis of Analogy. (To D - - L - - .)
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
Had you lived when a tyrant king
Strove to make all the slaves of one,
With nobles and with churchmen you
Had stood unflinching, pure and true,
To annihilate that hateful thing
Green Runnymeade beat out of John?
Had you lived when a wanton crew,
Flash scoundrels of a day outdone,
Trod down the toilers birth derides,
With Cromwell and his Ironsides
The brave days had discovered you,
Where Naseby saw the gallants run?
And yet you, - this same knight in list
For freedom in her narrow dawn
Against that one, against those few,
Vile king, vile nobles - you, yet you
Stand by the bloody Capitalist,
Fight with the pandar Gentleman!
Scheme | ABCCAX CBDDCB EXCCEB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11110111 11001101 11010101 10101101 111111 11110101 11010111 1101101 1100110 01110101 111011 01111101 11000101 01110111 11110111 110101000 1101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 20, 2023
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