Analysis of Epitaph on a Jacobite



To my true king I offered free from stain
Courage and faith; vain faith, and courage vain.
For him, I threw lands, honours, wealth, away.
And one dear hope, that was more prized than they.
For him I languished in a foreign clime,
Grey-haired with sorrow in my manhood's prime;
Heard on Lavernia Scargill's whispering trees,
And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees;
Beheld each night my home in fevered sleep,
Each morning started from the dream to weep;
Till God who saw me tried too sorely, gave
The resting place I asked, an early grave.
Oh thou, whom chance leads to this nameless stone,
From that proud country which was once mine own,
By those white cliffs I never more must see,
By that dear language which I spake like thee,
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJ
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110111 1001110101 111111101 0111111111 1111000101 111100111 11111001 011101111 111110101 1101010111 1111111101 0101111101 1111111101 1111011111 1111110111 1111011111 0111011101 10101010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 827
Words 151
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 640
Words per stanza (avg) 149
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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