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
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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Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902, but kept his French citizenship. more…

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