Analysis of For a War Memorial
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 (Kensington, London) – 1936 (Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)
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The hucksters haggle in the mart
The cars and carts go by;
Senates and schools go droning on;
For dead things cannot die.
A storm stooped on the place of tombs
With bolts to blast and rive;
But these be names of many men
The lightning found alive.
If usurers rule and rights decay
And visions view once more
Great Carthage like a golden shell
Gape hollow on the shore,
Still to the last of crumbling time
Upon this stone be read
How many men of England died
To prove they were not dead.
Scheme | X XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010010100101010010 01010001 010111 1011101 111101 01110111 111101 11111101 010101 1110101 010111 11010101 110101 110111001 011111 11011101 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 542 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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