Analysis of To Captain H------D, Of The 65th Regiment
Phillis Wheatley 1753 (West Africa) – 1784 (Boston)
SAY, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight
The warrior's bosom in the fields of fight?
Lo! here the christian and the hero join
With mutual grace to form the man divine.
In H-----D see with pleasure and surprise,
Where valour kindles, and where virtue lies:
Go, hero brave, still grace the post of fame,
And add new glories to thine honour'd name,
Still to the field, and still to virtue true:
Britannia glories in no son like you.
Scheme | AABCDDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101110101 011000111 1101000101 11001110101 0111110001 11101101 1101110111 011101111 1101011101 01001001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 432 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 334 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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