Analysis of Gigantic daughter of the West,



Gigantic daughter of the West,
We drink to thee across the flood,
We know thee most, we love thee best,
For art thou not of British blood?
Should war's mad blast again be blown,
Permit not thou the tyrant powers
To fight thy mother here alone,
But let thy broadsides roar with ours.
Hands all round!
God the tyrant's cause confound!
To our great kinsmen of the West, my friends,
And the great name of England, round and round.

'O rise, our strong Atlantic sons,
When war against our freedom springs!
O speak to Europe through your guns!
They can be understood by kings.
You must not mix our Queen with those
That wish to keep their people fools;
Our freedom's foemen are her foes,
She comprehends the race she rules.
Hands all round!
God the tyrant's cause confound!
To our dear kinsmen of the West, my friends,
And the great cause of Freedom, round and round.'


Scheme ababcdcdEEfe ghghijijEEfe
Poetic Form
Metre 01010101 11110101 11111111 11111101 11110111 011101010 11110101 11111110 111 101101 1101110111 0011110101 111010101 110110101 11110111 1110111 111110111 11111101 10101101 1010111 111 101101 1101110111 0011110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 846
Words 160
Sentences 13
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 12
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 336
Words per stanza (avg) 79
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.  more…

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