Analysis of The Dove
Victor James Daley 1858 – 1905
Within his office, smiling.
Sat JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,
But all the screws of Birmingham
Were working in his brain.
The heart within his bosom
Was as a millstone hard;
His eye was cold and cruel,
His face was frozen lard.
He had the map of Africa
Upon his table spread:
He took a brush, and with the same
He painted it blood-red.
He heard no moan of widows,
But only the hurrah
Of charging lines and squadrons
And 'Rule Britannia.'
A white dove to his window
With branch of olive sped -
He took a ruler in his hand,
And struck the white dove dead.
Scheme | XXXX XAXA BCXC XXXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 0111010 110100 1101110 010011 0101110 11011 1111010 111101 11011100 011101 11010101 110111 1111110 110001 1101010 010100 0111110 111101 11010011 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 562 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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