Analysis of Song of the Battle Eve
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
(Time -- the Ninth Century)
To-morrow, comrade, we
On the battle-plain must be,
There to conquer, or both lie low!
The morning star is up --
But there's wine still in the cup,
And we'll take another quaff, ere we go, boy, go;
We'll take another quaff, ere we go.
'Tis true, in manliest eyes
A passing tear will rise,
When we think of the friends we leave lone;
But what can wailing do?
See, our goblet's weeping too!
With its tears we'll chase away our own, boy, our own;
With its tears we'll chase away our own.
But daylight's stealing on;
The last that o'er us shone
Saw our children around us play;
The next -- ah! where shall we
And those rosy urchins be?
But -- no matter -- grasp thy sword and away, boy, away;
No matter -- grasp thy sword and away!
Let those, who brook the chain
Of Saxon or of Dane,
Ignobly by their fire-sides stay;
One sigh to home be given,
One heartfelt prayer to heaven,
Then, for Erin and her cause, boy, hurra! hurra! hurra!
Then, for Erin and her cause, hurra!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101100 11011 1010111 11101111 010111 1111001 011010111111 110101111 11011 010111 111101111 111101 1101101 11111011011101 1111101101 11101 0111011 110100111 011111 0110101 1110111001101 110111001 111101 110111 1111011 1111110 111110 11100011111 11100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,000 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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