Analysis of Heretics All
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
Heretics all, whoever you may be,
In Tarbes or Nimes, or over the sea,
You never shall have good words from me.
Caritas non conturbat me.
But Catholic men that live upon wine
Are deep in the water, and frank, and fine;
Wherever I travel I find it so,
Benedicamus Domino.
On childing women that are forelorn,
And men that sweat in nothing but scorn:
That is on all that ever were born,
Miserere Domine.
To my poor self on my deathbed,
And all my dear companions dead,
Because of the love that I bore them,
Dona Eis Requiem.
Scheme | AAAA BBCC BDDA EEXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11010111 011111001 110111111 1111 110111011 1100100101 0101101111 110 1110111 011101011 111111001 1010 1111111 01110101 011011111 101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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