Analysis of The Latest School
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 (Kensington, London) – 1936 (Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)
See the flying French depart
Like the bees of Bonaparte,
Swarming up with a most venomous vitality.
Over Baden and Bavaria,
And Brighton and Bulgaria,
Thus violating Belgian neutrality.
And the injured Prussian may
Not unreasonably say
"Why, it cannot be so small a nationality
Since Brixton and Batavia,
Bolivia and Belgravia,
Are bursting with the Belgian neutrality."
By pure Alliteration
You may trace this curious nation,
And respect this somewhat scattered Principality;
When you see a B in Both
You may take your Bible oath
You are violating Belgian neutrality.
Scheme | AABCCB DDBCXB EEBFFB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 101110 1011011000100 101000100 01000100 11000100100 0010101 1010001 111011100100 1100100 010001 11010100100 110100 111110010 001111100100 1110101 1111101 111000100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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