Analysis of My northern blood exults to face
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
My northern blood exults to face
The rapture of this rough embrace,
Glowing in every vein to feel
The cordial caress of steel
From spear-blue air and sword-blue sea,
Armour of England's liberty.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 11010111 01011101 100100111 0100111 11110111 10110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 197 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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