Analysis of The Dead Come Home: Excerpt
Edward Harrington 1896 (Shepparton) – 1966
'We answered to the call to arms, unquestioning and blind,
We trusted to the promises of those we left behind.
We gave our lives ungrudgingly. we did not flinch nor quail,
Strong in the splendid faith we held that justice must prevail,
And as we drew our latest breath in sorrow and in pain,
This faith upheld us to the last: 'We did not die in vain.'
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 11010111010001 11010100111101 111011111111 10010111110101 011110101010001 11011101111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 354 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 273 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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