Analysis of Ode

William Taylor Collins 1721 (Sussex) – 1759 (Sussex)



HOW sleep the Brave, who sink to Rest,
By all their Country's Wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy Fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallow'd Mold,
She there shall dress a sweeter Sod,
Than Fancy's Feet have ever trod.

By Fairy Hands their Knell is rung,
By Forms unseen their Dirge is sung;
There Honour comes, a Pilgrim grey,
To bless the Turf that wraps their Clay,
And Freedom shall a-while repair,
To dwell a weeping Hermit there!


Scheme AABBCC DDEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111 11110101 11110101 01111101 11110101 1111101 11011111 11011111 1110101 11011111 01010101 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 446
Words 81
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 171
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Taylor Collins

William Collins was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. more…

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