Analysis of Caesar Redivivus
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
In the olive groves of Italy
Men minds are all aflame;
For the war-lust spreads thro' Italy,
Where war-lords call the game.
And they dream of Roman legions
And the glory that was Rome's;
Yet reck not of the misery
That stalks Italian homes.
By the vine-clad hills of Italy
Men talk and dream of war;
Of the triumphs that were Caesar's,
And the glories known of yore.
But a mockery of triumph,
And an end to dreaming vain
Comes to victor, as to vanquichsed,
With a counting of the slain.
Oh, the women-folk of Italy,
They give their sons to Mars;
For they would be Spartan mothers,
Dams of splendid avitars.
But the fever shall be ending
In numb grief and shuddering fears,
When the spurious pearls of victory
Dissolve in women's tears.
In the pleasant land of Italy
The fever runs apace,
And the man who would be Caesar
From war's lesson turns his face.
With dreams of olden Empire
Would he set men's minds aflame,
Nor count the cost to Italy
In agony and shame.
Scheme | ABABCDAD AEFEXGXG AXFCXXAX AHIHIBAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001011100 111101 101111100 111101 01111010 0010111 11110100 110101 101111100 110111 10101010 0010111 10100110 0111101 1110111 1010101 101011100 111111 11111010 11101 10101110 01101001 1010011100 010101 001011100 010101 00111110 1110111 11110100 1111101 11011100 010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 942 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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