Analysis of The Warrior
John McCrae 1872 (Guelph) – 1918 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
He wrought in poverty, the dull grey days,
But with the night his little lamp-lit room
Was bright with battle flame, or through a haze
Of smoke that stung his eyes he heard the boom
Of Bluecher's guns; he shared Almeida's scars,
And from the close-packed deck, about to die,
Looked up and saw the "Birkenhead"'s tall spars
Weave wavering lines across the Southern sky:
Or in the stifling 'tween decks, row on row,
At Aboukir, saw how the dead men lay;
Charged with the fiercest in Busaco's strife,
Brave dreams are his -- the flick'ring lamp burns low --
Yet couraged for the battles of the day
He goes to stand full face to face with life.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101000111 1101110111 1111011101 1111111101 1111111 0101110111 11010111 11001010101 1001011111 11110111 11010011 1111011111 111010101 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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