Analysis of [Month of] March
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
The north-cast wind has come from Norroway,
Roaring he came above the white waves' tips!
The foam of the loud sea was on his lips,
And all his hair was salt with falling spray.
Over the keen light of northern day
He cast his snow cloud's terrible eclipse;
Beyond our banks he suddenly struck the ships,
And left them labouring on his landward way.
The certain course that to my strength belongs
Drives him with gathering purpose and control
Until across Vendean flats he sees
Ocean, the eldest of his enemies.
Then wheels he for him, glorying in goal
And gives him challenge, bellowing battle songs.
Scheme | ABBCCBBA DEFFED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111111 1011010111 0110111111 0111111101 100111101 1111110001 011011100101 011111101 0101111101 11110010001 01011111 1001011100 11111101 01110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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