Analysis of England
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
Shoulders of upland brown laid dark to the sunset's bosom,
Living amber of wheat, and copper of new-ploughed loam,
Downs where the white sheep wander, little gardens in blossom,
Roads that wind through the twilight up to the lights of home.
Lanes that are white with hawthorn, dykes where the sedges shiver,
Hollows where caged winds slumber, moorlands where winds wake free,
Sowing and reaping and gleaning, spring and torrent and river,
Are they not more, by worlds, than the whole of the world can be?
Is there a corner of land, a furze-fringed rag of a by-way,
Coign of your foam-white cliffs or swirl of your grass-green waves,
Leaf of your peaceful copse, or dust of your strenuous highway,
But in our hearts is sacred, dear as our cradles, our graves?
Is not each bough in your orchards, each cloud in the skies above you,
Is not each byre or homestead, furrow or farm or fold,
Dear as the last dear drops of the blood in the hearts that love you,
Filling those hearts till the love is more than the heart can hold?
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 1011011110110 1010110101111 11011101010010 111101110111 111111110110 101111011111 10010011010010 11111110110111 110101101111011 1111111111111 11110111111001 10101110111010101 1111011011001011 111111101111 110111101001111 10111011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,030 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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