Analysis of On The Field Of Waterloo
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
So then, the name which travels side by side
With English life from childhood—Waterloo—
Means this. The sun is setting. “Their strife grew
Till the sunset, and ended,” says our guide.
It lacked the “chord” by stage-use sanctified,
Yet I believe one should have thrilled. For me,
I grinned not, and 'twas something;—certainly
These held their point, and did not turn but died:
So much is very well. “Under each span
Of these ploughed fields” ('tis the guide still) “there rot
Three nations' slain, a thousand-thousandfold.”
Am I to weep? Good sirs, the earth is old:
Of the whole earth there is no single spot
But hath among its dust the dust of man.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110111 11011110 1101110111 1010101101 11011111 1101111111 1110110100 1111011111 1111011011 1111101111 11010101 1111110111 1011111101 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 679 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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