Analysis of E.B.B.
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
THE WHITE-ROSE garland at her feet,
The crown of laurel at her head,
Her noble life on earth complete,
Lay her in the last low bed
For the slumber calm and deep:
“He giveth His belovèd sleep.”
Soldiers find their fittest grave
In the field whereon they died;
So her spirit pure and brave
Leaves the clay it glorified
To the land for which she fought
With such grand impassioned thought.
Keats and Shelley sleep at Rome,
She in well-loved Tuscan earth;
Finding all their death’s long home
Far from their old home of birth.
Italy, you hold in trust
Very sacred English dust.
Therefore this one prayer I breathe,—
That you yet may worthy prove
Of the heirlooms they bequeath
Who have loved you with such love:
Fairest land while land of slaves
Yields their free souls no fit graves.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII XXXXJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 01110101 01011101 1000111 1010101 11011011 1011101 001111 1010101 101110 1011111 1110101 1010111 1011101 1011111 1111111 1001101 1010101 111111 1111101 101101 1111111 1011111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 805 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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