Analysis of British War Song

Frederick George Scott 1861 (Montreal, Quebec) – 1944 (Quebec City, Quebec)



WARS and rumours of wars"—the clouds lower over the sea,
And a man must now be a man, if ever a man can be;
"Wars and rumours of wars"—a cry from the flaming East,
For the vultures are gathered together, and the lions roar over the
  feast.

War! Shall we flinch! Shall we tremble! Shall we shrink like
  cowards from the fray?
5
Better all Britons were dead than their glory passed away!
The clouds may be dark and lowering, the storm may be loud and
  long,
But the hearts of our men are true, and the arms of our men are
  strong.

From the thousand years of glory, from the grave of heroes gone,
Comes a voice on the breath of the storm, and a power to spur us
  on:
10
A man must now be a man, and every man be true,
Fro the grave that covers our glory shall cover each Briton too.


Scheme AABXB XCDCXEXE XXXDFF
Poetic Form
Metre 1001101101001 001111011100111 100110110101 101011001000101100 1 111111101111 10101 1 10110011110101 011110100011110 1 10111011100111011 1 101011101011101 1011011010010111 1 1 01111010100111 10111010101101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 796
Words 163
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 8, 6
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 197
Words per stanza (avg) 52
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 24, 2023

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Frederick George Scott

Frederick George Scott was a Canadian poet and author, known as the Poet of the Laurentians. He is sometimes associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, a group that included Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. Scott published 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry. Scott was a British imperialist who wrote many hymns to the British Empire—eulogizing his country's roles in the Boer Wars and World War I. Many of his poems use the natural world symbolically to convey deeper spiritual meaning. Frederick George Scott was the father of poet F. R. Scott. more…

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