Analysis of The Fields Of Flanders
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
Last year the fields were all glad and gay
With silver daisies and silver may;
There were kingcups gold by the river's edge
And primrose stars under every hedge.
This year the fields are trampled and brown,
The hedges are broken and beaten down,
And where the primroses used to grow
Are little black crosses set in a row.
And the flower of hopes, and the flowers of dreams,
The noble, fruitful, beautiful schemes,
The tree of life with its fruit and bud,
Are trampled down in the mud and the blood.
The changing seasons will bring again
The magic of Spring to our wood and plain;
Though the Spring be so green as never was seen
The crosses will still be black in the green.
The God of battles shall judge the foe
Who trampled our country and laid her low. . . .
God! hold our hands on the reckoning day,
Lest all we owe them we should repay
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF XXGG DDAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110101101 110100101 101110101 011101001 110111001 0101100101 01010111 1101101001 001011001011 010101001 011111101 1101001001 010101101 01011110101 10111111011 0101111001 011101101 11010100101 11101101001 111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 829 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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