Analysis of Farewell
Sir Henry Newbolt 1862 (Bilston, Staffordshire) – 1938 (Kensington, London)
Mother, with unbowed head
Hear thou across the sea
The farewell of the dead,
The dead who died for thee.
Greet them again with tender words and grave,
For saving thee, themselves they could not save.
To keep the house unharmed
Their fathers built so fair,
Deeming endurance armed
Better than brute despair,
They found the secret of the word that saith,
'Service is sweet, for all true life is death.'
So greet thou well thy dead
Across the homeless sea,
And be thou comforted
Because they died for thee.
Far off they served, but now their deed is done
For evermore their life and thine are one.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF ABXBGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011 110101 01101 011111 1101110101 1101011111 110101 110111 11001 101101 1101010111 1011111111 111111 010101 011100 011111 1111111111 110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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