Analysis of To One of the Brave
Lucian B. Watkins 1879 (Chesterfield, Virginia) – 1921
Though forty-five long years, you say,
Have silvered o'er your head with gray,
Your friends rejoice, to-day, that you
Stand hale and hearty in your "blue."
Long for Old Glory you have stood
With truest sense of brotherhood;
Long may you live a useful life—
Noble and true in peace of strife.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011111 11101111 11011111 11010011 11110111 1101110 11110101 10010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 300 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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