Analysis of How Sleep The Brave
William Taylor Collins 1721 (Sussex) – 1759 (Sussex)
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes best!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallow'd mold,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair
To dwell, a weeping hermit, there!
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11110101 11110101 01111101 11110101 1111101 11011111 11011111 11010101 11011111 01010101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 422 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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