Analysis of Bellman's Verses For 1814
James Henry Leigh Hunt 1784 (Southgate, London) – 1859
Huzza, my boys! our friends the Dutch have risen,
Our good old friends, and burst the Tyrant's prison!
Aye, and have done it without bloodshed too,
Like men, to sense as well as freedom true.
The moment, I'll be sworn, that Ocean heard it,
With a new dance of waters it bestirr'd it;
And Trade, reviving from her trance of death,
Took a new lease of sunshine and of breath.
Let's aid them, my fine fellows, all we can:—
Where's finer business for an Englishman—
Who knows what 'tis to eat his own good bread,
And see his table-cloth securely spread—
Than helping to set free a neighbour's oven?
Huzza! The Dutch for ever! Orange Boven!
Scheme | AABBCCDDEAFFAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101110 10111010110 101110111 1111111101 01011111011 1011110111 0101010111 101111011 1111110111 1101011100 1111111111 0111010101 1101110110 1011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 485 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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