Analysis of Homeward Bound
Sir Henry Newbolt 1862 (Bilston, Staffordshire) – 1938 (Kensington, London)
After long labouring in the windy ways,
On smooth and shining tides
Swiftly the great ship glides,
Her storms forgot, her weary watches past;
Northward she glides, and through the enchanted haze
Faint on the verge her far hope dawns at last.
The phantom sky-line of a shadowy down,
Whose pale white cliffs below
Through sunny mist aglow,
Like noon-day ghosts of summer moonshine gleam---
Soft as old sorrow, bright as old renown,
There lies the home, of all our mortal dream.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101100101 110101 100111 0101010101 10110100101 1101011111 01011101001 111101 110101 111111011 1111011101 11011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 472 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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