Analysis of The Survival
Edmund Blunden 1896 (London) – 1974 (Long Melford)
To-day’s house makes to-morrow’s road;
I knew these heaps of stone
When they were walls of grace and might,
The country’s honour, art’s delight
That over fountain’d silence show’d
Fame’s final bastion.
Inheritance has found fresh work,
Disunion union breeds;
Beauty the strong, its difference lost,
Has matter fit for flood and frost.
Here’s the true blood that will not shirk
Life’s new-commanding needs.
With curious costly zeal, O man,
Raise orrery and ode;
How shines your tower, the only one
Of that especial site and stone!
And even the dream’s confusion can
Sustain to-morrow’s road.
Scheme | ABCCADEFGGEFHADBHA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 111111 11011101 011101 1101101 11010 01001111 010101 100111001 11011101 10111111 110101 110010111 110001 111100101 11010101 010010101 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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