Analysis of A Scot to Jeanne D’Arc
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
DARK Lily without blame,
Not upon us the shame,
Whose sires were to the Auld Alliance true;
They, by the Maiden’s side,
Victorious fought and died;
One stood by thee that fiery torment through,
Till the White Dove from thy pure lips had passed,
And thou wert with thine own St. Catherine at the last.
Once only didst thou see,
In artist’s imagery,
Thine own face painted, and that precious thing
Was in an Archer’s hand
From the leal Northern land.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011 101101 1101010101 110101 0100101 1111110011 1011111111 0111111100101 110111 010100 1111001101 10111 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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