Analysis of Ha'nacker Mill
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
Sally is gone that was so kindly,
Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill
And the Briar grows ever since then so blindly;
And ever since then the clapper is still...
And the sweeps have fallen from Ha'nacker Mill.
Ha'nacker Hill is in Desolation:
Ruin a-top and a field unploughed.
And Spirits that call on a fallen nation,
Spirits that loved her calling aloud,
Spirits abroad in a windy cloud.
Spirits that call and no one answers --
Ha'nacker's down and England's done.
Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers,
And never a ploughman under the Sun:
Never a ploughman. Never a one.
| Scheme | ABABB CDCDD ECECC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 101111110 1011111 001011011110 0101101011 001110111 1110010 10010011 01011101010 101101001 100100101 101101110 110101 101011010 010011001 10011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 567 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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