Analysis of Inscription 05 - For A Monument At Silbury-Hill
Robert Southey 1774 (Bristol) – 1843 (London)
This mound in some remote and dateless day
Rear'd o'er a Chieftain of the Age of Hills,
May here detain thee Traveller! from thy road
Not idly lingering. In his narrow house
Some Warrior sleeps below: his gallant deeds
Haply at many a solemn festival
The Bard has harp'd, but perish'd is the song
Of praise, as o'er these bleak and barren downs
The wind that passes and is heard no more.
Go Traveller on thy way, and contemplate
Glory's brief pageant, and remember then
That one good deed was never wrought in vain.
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Metre | 110101011 11001010111 11011100111 11010001101 11001011101 1110010100 0111110101 11110110101 0111001111 1100111010 111000101 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 512 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 406 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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