Analysis of Inflexible As Fate
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
When for one brief dark hour Rome's virile sway
Felt the sharp shock of Cannae's adverse day,
Forum, and field, and Senate-House were rent
With cries of nor misgiving nor lament,
Only of men contending now who should
Purchase the spot on which the Victor stood.
Legion on legion sprang up from the ground,
Gleamed through the land, and over ocean wound,
Till Scipio's eagles swarmed on Afric's shore,
And Carthage perished, to insult no more.
Not less resolved than Rome, now England stands
Facing foul fortune with unfaltering hands.
Throughout her Realms is neither fear nor feud,
But, calm in strength and steeled in fortitude,
She fills the gaps of death with eager life,
That will nor lag nor haggle in the strife,
Till, having backward rolled the lawless tide
Of crafty treason, tyranny, and pride,
Her Sword hath brought, inflexible as Fate,
Charter of Freedom to a fettered State.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111101101 101111011 1001010101 1111010101 1011010111 1001110101 1011011101 1101010101 11101111 0101010111 1101111101 10110111 0101110111 110101010 1101111101 1111110001 1101010101 1101010001 0111010011 1011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 877 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 354 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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