Analysis of A Counsel
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
O strong Republic of the nobler years
Whose white feet shine beside time's fairer flood
That shall flow on the clearer for our blood
Now shed, and the less brackish for our tears;
When time and truth have put out hopes and fears
With certitude, and love has burst the bud,
If these whose powers then down the wind shall scud
Still live to feel thee smite their eyes and ears,
When thy foot's tread hath crushed their crowns and creeds,
Care thou not then to crush the beast that bleeds,
The snake whose belly cleaveth to the sod,
Nor set thine heel on men as on their deeds;
But let the worm Napoleon crawl untrod,
Nor grant Mastai the gallows of his God.
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Metre | 1101010101 1111011101 11110101101 11001101101 1101111101 110011101 11110110111 1111111101 1111111101 1111110111 011101101 1111111111 1101010011 111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 642 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 519 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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