Analysis of From A Verandah



O CITY lapped in sun and Sabbath rest,
With happy face of plenteous ease possessed,
Have you no doubts that whisper, dreams that moan
Disquietude, to stir your slumbering breast?
Think you the sins of other climes are gone?
The harlot's curse rings in your streets — the groan
Of out-worn men, the stabbed and plundered slaves
Of ever-growing Greed, these are your own!
O'er you shall sweep the fiery hell that craves
For quenchment the bright blood of human waves:
For you, if you repent not, shall atone
For Greed's dark death-holes with War's swarming graves!


Scheme AABACBDBDDBD
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010101 110111101 1111110111 11111001 1101110111 011101101 1111010101 1101011111 101110100111 110111101 1111011101 1111111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 581
Words 101
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 445
Words per stanza (avg) 97
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams

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