Analysis of On The Danger Of War
George Meredith 1828 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) – 1909 (Box Hill, Surrey)
Avert, High Wisdom, never vainly wooed,
This threat of War, that shows a land brain-sick.
When nations gain the pitch where rhetoric
Seems reason they are ripe for cannon's food.
Dark looms the issue though the cause be good,
But with the doubt 'tis our old devil's trick.
O now the down-slope of the lunatic
Illumine lest we redden of that brood.
For not since man in his first view of thee
Ascended to the heavens giving sign
Within him of deep sky and sounded sea,
Did he unforfeiting thy laws transgress;
In peril of his blood his ears incline
To drums whose loudness is their emptiness.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010101 1111110111 1101011100 1101111101 1101010111 11011101101 110111010 11110111 1111011111 0101010101 0111110101 1111101 0101111101 111111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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