Analysis of Ye Mariners of England
Thomas Campbell 1777 (Glasgow) – 1844 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
1 Ye Mariners of England
2 That guard our native seas,
3 Whose flag has braved, a thousand years,
4 The battle and the breeze--
5 Your glorious standard launch again
6 To match another foe!
7 And sweep through the deep,
8 While the stormy winds do blow,--
9 While the battle rages loud and long,
10 And the stormy winds do blow.
11 The spirits of your fathers
12 Shall start from every wave!
13 For the deck it was their field of fame,
14 And Ocean was their grave.
15 Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell
16 Your manly hearts shall glow,
17 As ye sweep through the deep,
18 While the stormy winds do blow,--
19 While the battle rages loud and long,
20 And the stormy winds do blow.
21 Britannia needs no bulwarks,
22 No towers along the steep;
23 Her march is o'er the mountain waves,
24 Her home is on the deep.
25 With thunders from her native oak
26 She quells the floods below,
27 As they roar on the shore
28 When the stormy winds do blow,--
29 When the battle rages loud and long
30 And the stormy winds do blow.
31 The meteor flag of England
32 Shall yet terrific burn,
33 Till danger's troubled night depart
34 And the star of peace return.
35 Then, then, ye ocean warriors!
36 Our song and feast shall flow
37 To the fame of your name,
38 When the storm has ceased to blow,--
39 When the fiery fight is heard no more,
40 And the storm has ceased to blow
Scheme | ABXBXCDCEC FGHGXCDCEC BDXDXCICEC AJXJFCHCIC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 1100110 1110101 11110101 010001 110010101 110101 01101 1010111 101010101 0010111 0101110 1111001 101111111 010111 11010101 110111 111101 1010111 101010101 0010111 0100111 1100101 011100101 011101 11010101 110101 111101 1010111 101010101 0010111 01001110 110101 1110101 0011101 11110100 1010111 101111 1011111 1010011111 0011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,434 |
Words | 277 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 262 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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