Analysis of Armistice Day (1953)
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Don't jeer because we celebrate
Armistice Day,
Though thirty years of sorry fate
Have passed away.
Though still we gaurd the Sacred Flame,
And fly the Flag,
That World War Two with grief and shame
Revealed--a rag.
For France cannot defend to-day
Her native land;
And she is far to proud to pray
For helping hand.
Aye, though she stands amid the Free,
In love with life,
No more her soil will shambles be
In world-war strife.
Still we who tend the deathless Flame
Of Verdun speak;
It is our glory and our shame,
For we are weak.
We have too much of blood and blight
To answer for . . .
No, France will never, never fight
Another war!
Scheme | ABABCDCD BEBEFGFG CHCHIJIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 1001 11011101 1101 11110101 0101 11111101 0101 11100111 0101 01111111 1101 11110101 0111 11011101 0111 1111011 1101 1110100101 1111 11111101 1101 11110101 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 773 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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