Analysis of Inscription 02 - For A Column At Newbury

Robert Southey 1774 (Bristol) – 1843 (London)



Art thou a Patriot Traveller? on this field
Did FALKLAND fall the blameless and the brave
Beneath a Tyrant's banners: dost thou boast
Of loyal ardor? HAMBDEN perish'd here,
The rebel HAMBDEN, at whose glorious name
The heart of every honest Englishman
Beats high with conscious pride. Both uncorrupt,
Friends to their common country both, they fought,
They died in adverse armies. Traveller!
If with thy neighbour thou should'st not accord,
In charity remember these good men,
And quell each angry and injurious thought.


Scheme ABCDEFAGHIJG
Poetic Form
Metre 110100100111 1101010001 010110111 110101101 0101111001 01110010100 11110111 1111010111 1100110100 1111111101 0100010111 01110001001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 517
Words 86
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 420
Words per stanza (avg) 84
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Robert Southey

Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. more…

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