Analysis of Futtypore Sicri - The Favourite Residence of the Emperor Ackbar
THE summer palace of the king,
Whose lightest word was enough to bring
Every gem and every flower,
To light his hall—and to wreath his bower.
Can you not fancy the summer-time,
Such as it is in a southern clime ?
Can you not fancy the glorious home,
To which the conq’ring monarch would come,
When the sabre was sheath’d, and the struggle was done,
And the red banner waved for the victory won,
And the rudest of sights or of sounds on the gale,
Was the fall of a footstep—the wave of a veil ?
I cannot; I think of the victor’s red hand,
Which swept its own kindred in blood from the land,
Which sundered the ties that in youth are entwined,
When the heart is most warm, and the temper most kind.
The grave has its vengeance—the dead have their power
In the terrible silence of midnight’s dark hour,
When each shade is a spectre—and winds have a tone,
To the ear of the innocent sleeper unknown ;
When the visions ascend from the depths of the tomb,
And strange shadows flit thro’ the spectral room.
Spread ye the purple, and pour ye the wine,
Let the incense arise till the room be a shrine;
Wreathe the bright tresses—let sweet voices sing.
They chase not the past from thy spirit, O king ;
From the dead and their shadows thou never may’st flee,
And the blood thou hast shed is for ever with thee.
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Metre | 01010101 110110111 1001010010 1111011110 111100101 111100101 1111001001 1101111 101011001011 001101101001 001011111101 10110101101 11011101011 11111001101 1101101101 101111001011 011110011110 001001011110 111101001101 101101001001 101001101101 01111011 1101001101 100101101101 1011011101 11101111011 10101111011 001111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,295 |
Words | 243 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,011 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 247 |
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