Analysis of Macaulay
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
THE DREAMY rhymer’s measur’d snore
Falls heavy on our ears no more;
And by long strides are left behind
The dear delights of woman-kind,
Who win their battles like their loves,
In satin waistcoats and kid gloves,
And have achiev’d the crowning work
When they have truss’d and skewer’d a Turk.
Another comes with stouter tread,
And stalks among the statelier dead.
He rushes on, and hails by turns
High-crested Scott, broad-breasted Burns,
And shows the British youth, who ne’er
Will lag behind, what Romans were,
When all the Tuscans and their Lars
Shouted, and shook the towers of Mars.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111 110110111 01111101 01011101 11110111 0101011 0110101 11110101 0101111 0101011 11010111 11011101 01010111 11011100 1101011 100101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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