Analysis of Riding
Herbert Asquith 1881 – 1947
FILL up, fill up the stirrup-cup!
The wine is running free:
The blue veils of the Spring are out;
She dances on the sea.
In fields of love, in lanes of laughter,
Slacken not the pace:
Care not for Him, who follows after,
And wins at last the race.
Past pear and apple-orchards,
The bramble and the rose,
And out across the swinging turf
To where the sea-wind goes:
To horse! To horse! the time is short;
Soon will the day be done:
We'll gallop on the morning grass,
And drink the rising sun:
And onward through the upland,
To see the plains unfurled,
And armies of the stars go down
Over the brink of the world.
Scheme | ABCBDEDEFGHGIJKJLMNM |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110101 011101 01110111 110101 011101110 10101 111111010 011101 1101010 010001 01010101 110111 11110111 110111 11010101 010101 0101010 110101 01010111 1001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 642 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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