Analysis of The Old and the New
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
Mars! Mars!
Thy clashing sword was keen
And glittering with stars.
Thine armour sheen
Shone to the terrored sky,
And o’er the bodies of thy foes
With open blows
Didst step to victory.
War! War!
They hidden horrors sound
And echo from afar.
Upon the ground
Thou liest now in fear
To wait the cunning chance
To thrust thy lance,
And hurl thy poisoned spear.
Scheme | ABABXCCX XDXDEFFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 110111 010011 1101 11011 01010111 1101 111100 11 110101 010101 0101 11101 110101 1111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 350 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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