Analysis of The Judgement of England
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 (Kensington, London) – 1936 (Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey
Where Wealth accumulates and Men decay.'
So rang of old the noble voice in vain
O'er the Last Peasants wandering on the plain,
Doom has reversed the riddle and the rhyme,
While sinks the commerce reared upon that crime,
The thriftless towns litter with lives undone,
To whom our madness left no joy but one;
And irony that glares like Judgment Day
Sees Men accumulate and Wealth decay.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 11011100101 110100101 1111010101 100110100101 1101010001 1101010111 011101101 11101011111 0100111101 110100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 344 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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