Analysis of King's Land
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
Stand thou forever among human Houses,
House of the Resurrection, House of Birth;
House of the rooted hearts and long carouses,
Stand, and be famous over all the Earth.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010011010 110010111 110101011 1011010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 176 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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