Analysis of On a Troopship - 1915
Herbert Asquith 1881 – 1947
FAREWELL, the village leaning to the hill,
And all the cawing rooks that homeward fly ;
The bees; the drowsy anthem of the mill
The willows winding under April sky !
We watch the breakers crashing on the bow,
And those far flashes in the Eastern haze :
The fields and friends, that were, are fainter now
Than whispering of ancient waterways.
Now England stirs, as stirs a dreamer wound
In immemorial slumber ; lids apart,
Soon will she rouse her giant limbs, attuned
To that old music hidden at her heart.
The small occasions and the menial cries
Fade fast away : the little men beware :
She rises in her circuit of the skies,
An eagle drinking of the mountain air.
We come to harbour in the breath of wars;
Welcome again, the land of our farewells
In this strange ruin, open to the stars,
We find the haven, where her spirit dwells.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFGFHIHIJKLK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 101010101 010111101 0101010101 011010101 1101010101 0111000101 0101101101 110011010 1101110101 0010010101 1111010101 1111010101 01010001001 1101010101 1100010101 1101010101 1111000111 1001011101 0111010101 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 822 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 654 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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