Analysis of In War-Time
Florence Earle Coates 1850 (Philadelphia) – 1927 (Philadelphia)
Further and further we leave the scene
Of war—and of England’ s care;
I try to keep my mind serene—
But my heart stays there;
For a distant song of pain and wrong
My spirit doth deep confuse,
And I sit all day on the deck, and long—
And long for news!
I seem to see them in battle-line—
Heroes with hearts of gold,
But of their victory a sign
The Fates withhold;
And the hours too tardy-footed pass,
The voiceless hush grows dense
’Mid the imaginings, alas!
That feed suspense.
Oh, might I lie on the wind, or fly
In the willful sea-bird’s track,
Would I hurry on, with a homesick cry—
Or hasten back?
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 100101101 11011011 11111101 11111 101011101 1101101 0111110101 0111 111110101 101111 11110001 0101 0010110101 010111 10101 1101 111110111 0010111 111011011 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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