Analysis of Places and Men
William Allingham 1824 (Ballyshannon) – 1889 (Hampstead)
In Sussex here, by shingle and by sand,
Flat fields and farmsteads in their wind-blown trees,
The shallow tide-wave courses to the land,
And all along the down a fringe one sees
Of ducal woods. That 'dim discovered spire'
Is Chichester, where Collins felt a fire
Touch his sad lips; thatched Felpham roofs are these,
Where happy Blake found heaven more close at hand.
Goodwood and Arundel possess their lords,
Successive in the towers and groves, which stay;
These two poor men, by some right of their own,
Possessed the earth and sea, the sun and moon,
The inner sweet of life; and put in words
A personal force that doth not pass away.
Scheme | ABABXXBA XCXXXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110011 110101111 0101110101 0101010111 1101110101 11001101010 111111111 11011101111 101000111 01000100111 1111111111 0101010101 0101110101 01001111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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