Analysis of When The Millennium Comes
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
WHEN the Millennium comes
Only the kings will fight,
While the princes beat the drums,
And the queens in aprons white,
Arnica bottle in hand,
Watch their Majesties throw,
With a gesture vague and grand,
Their crowns at the dodging foe,
Poor old obsolete crowns
That Time hangs up in a row.
When the Millennium comes
And the proud steel navies meet,
While the furious boiler hums,
And the vengeful pistons beat,
The sailors will stay on shore
And cheer with a polyglot shout
The self-fed cannon that roar
Till metal has fought it out,
But the warm, glad bodies of boys
Are not for the waves to flout.
When the Millennium comes,
Love, the mother of life,
Will have worked out all the sums
Of our dim industrial strife,
And every man shall be lord
Of his deed and his dream, and the lore
Of war shall be abhorred
As a dragon-tale of yore,
Myth of the Iron Age,
A monster earth breeds no more.
Scheme | AbabcdcdedAfafghghihAjajkgkglg |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 1001001 100111 1010101 0010101 11001 1111 1010101 1110101 11101 1111001 1001001 0011101 10100101 0010101 0101111 011001 0111011 1101111 10111011 1110111 1001001 101011 1111101 110101001 01001111 111011001 111101 1010111 110101 0101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 868 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 700 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 166 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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