Analysis of News to the king, good news for all
Augusta Davies Webster 1837 (Poole, Dorset) – 1894
'NEWS to the king, good news for all,'
The corn is trodden, the river runs red.
'News of the battle,' the heralds call,
'We have won the field; we have taken the town;
We have beaten the rebels and crushed them down.'
And the dying lie with the dead.
'Who was my bravest?' quoth the king,
The corn is trodden, the river runs red.
'Whom shall I honour for this great thing?'
'Threescore were best, where none were worst;
But Walter Wendulph was aye the first.'
And the dying lie with the dead.
'What of my husband?' quoth the bride,
The corn is trodden, the river runs red.
'Comes he to-morrow; how long will he bide?'
'Put off thy bridegear, busk thee in black;
Walter Wendulph will never come back.'
And the dying lie with the dead.
Scheme | aBaccB dBdeeB fBfggB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 0111001011 110100101 11101111001 11100100111 00101101 11110101 0111001011 11111111 1011101 11011101 00101101 11110101 0111001011 1111011111 11111101 10111011 00101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 724 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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