Analysis of The Last Conqueror
James Shirley 1596 (London) – 1666 (London)
Victorious men of earth, no more
Proclaim how wide your empires are;
Though you bind-in every shore
And your triumphs reach as far
As night and day,
Yet you, proud monarchs, must obey
And mingle with forgotten ashes, when
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
Devouring Famine, Plague, and War,
Each able to undo mankind,
Death's servile emissaries are;
Nor to these alone confined,
He hath at will
More quaint and subtle ways to kill;
A smile or kiss, as he will use the art,
Shall have the cunning skill to break a heart.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010011111 011111001 11101001 0110111 1101 1111101 0101010101 1111011101 010010101 11010111 1101001 1110101 1111 11010111 0111111101 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 521 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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