Analysis of Pereunt Et Imputantur
Sir Henry Newbolt 1862 (Bilston, Staffordshire) – 1938 (Kensington, London)
Bernard, if to you and me
Fortune all at once should give
Years to spend secure and free,
With the choice of how to live,
Tell me, what should we proclaim
Life deserving of the name?
Winning some one else's case?
Saving some one else's seat?
Hearing with a solemn face
People of importance bleat?
No, I think we should not still
Waste our time at others' will.
Summer noons beneath the limes,
Summer rides at evening cool,
Winter's tales and home-made rhymes,
Figures on the frozen pool---
These would we for labours take,
And of these our business make.
Ah! but neither you nor I
Dare in earnest venture so;
Still we let the good days die
And to swell the reckoning go.
What are those that know the way,
Yet to walk therein delay?
Scheme | AXAXBB CDCDEE FGFGHH IJIJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 1011111 1110101 1011111 1111101 1010101 1011101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1111111 11011101 1010101 1011101 1010111 1010101 111111 01110101 1110111 1010101 1110111 01101001 1111101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 731 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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