Analysis of To The Tiber
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
On its late (in 1871) Inundation of Rome
Well done, old Flood, that, hiding a clear eye
Beneath thy yellow veil, dost wend among
Those epic hills and dales of seven-topp'd song,
To keep watch on the stone eternity
Whereof the mortal tenants die and die;
One more is gone, the deadliest of the long
Line, the foul vast of whose unmeasured wrong
Twined to its summit in the triple Lie
Of that thrice-cursèd Crown. And thou, brave flood,
Enterest a thousand years of carrion
To swill away the deeps of dung and blood,
And drown the garbaged tribes that stank thereon,
That so, at least, the new investiture
Be on clean threshold and a hearth-stone pure.
Scheme | X AXBXABBACXCXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111001011 1111110011 0111011101 11010111011 1111010100 101010101 11110100101 10111111 1111000101 1111110111 101011100 1101011101 010111101 1111010100 111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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