Analysis of Sound, Sound the Clarion
Sir Walter Scott 1771 (College Wynd, Edinburgh) – 1832 (Abbotsford, Roxburghshire)
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 110100101 110100101 1101011001 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 146 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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