Analysis of Victory
Clive Staples Lewis 1898 (Clive Staples Lewis Belfast) – 1963 (Oxford)
Roland is dead, Cuchulain's crest is low,
The battered war-rear wastes and turns to rust,
And Helen's eyes and Iseult's lips are dust
And dust the shoulders and the breasts of snow.
The faerie people from our woods are gone,
No Dryads have I found in all our trees,
No Triton blows his horn about our seas
And Arthur sleeps far hence in Avalon.
The ancient songs they wither as the grass
And waste as doth a garment waxen old,
All poets have been fools who thought to mould
A monument more durable than brass.
For these decay: but not for that decays
The yearning, high, rebellious spirit of man
That never rested yet since life began
From striving with red Nature and her ways.
Now in the filth of war, the baresark shout
Of battle, it is vexed. And yet so oft
Out of the deeps, of old, it rose aloft
That they who watch the ages may not doubt.
Though often bruised, oft broken by the rod,
Yet, like the phoenix, from each fiery bed
Higher the stricken spirit lifts its head
And higher-till the beast become a god
Scheme | ABBA XCCX DEED FGGF HIIH JKKJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 10111111 0101110111 010101111 0101000111 0110110111 1111101101 11011101101 010111010 0101110101 011101011 1101111111 0100110011 1101111101 01010101011 1101011101 1101110001 100111011 1101110111 1101111101 1111010111 1101110101 11010111001 1001010111 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 999 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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