Analysis of The Gay Gordons
Sir Henry Newbolt 1862 (Bilston, Staffordshire) – 1938 (Kensington, London)
(Dargai, October 20, 1897)
Whos for the Gathering, who's for the Fair?
(Gay goes the Gordon to a fight)
The bravest of the brave are at deadlock there,
(Highlanders! march! by the right!)
There are bullets by the hundred buzzing in the air,
There are bonny lads lying on the hillside bare;
But the Gordons know what the Gordons dare
When they hear the pipers playing!
The happiest English heart today
(Gay goes the Gordon to a fight)
Is the heart of the Colonel, hide it as he may;
(Steady there! steady on the right!)
He sees his work and he sees his way,
He knows his time and the word to say,
And he's thinking of the tune that the Gordons play
When he sets the pipers playing.
Rising, roaring, rushing like the tide,
(Gay goes the Gordon to a fight)
They're up through the fire-zone, not be be denied;
(Bayonets! and charge! by the right!)
Thirty bullets straight where the rest went wide,
And thirty lads are lying on the bare hillside;
But they passed in the hour of the Gordons' pride,
To the skirl of the pipers' playing.
Scheme | x aBabaaac dBdbdddc eBebeeec |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010 1101001101 11010101 0101011111 101101 1110101010001 11101101011 10111011 11101010 010010101 11010101 101101011111 10110101 111101111 111100111 01101011011 11101010 101010101 11010101 111010111101 1001101 1010110111 01011101011 11100101011 101101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,013 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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