Analysis of The Singer Of High State
Louis Golding 1895 (Manchester) – 1958
On hills too harsh for firs to climb,
Where eagle dare not hatch her brood,
Upon the peak of solitude,
With anvils of black granite crude
I forge austerities of rhyme.
Such godlike stuff my spirit drinks
I make grand odes of tempests there.
The steel-winged eagle, if he dare
To cleave these tracts of frozen air,
Hearing such music, swoops and sinks.
Stark clangours of forgotten wars,
Tumults of primal love and hate,
Through crags of song reverberate.
Held by the Singer of High State,
Battalions of the midnight pause.
On hills uplift from Space and Time,
Upon the peak of Solitude,
With stars to give my furnace food,
On anvils of black granite crude
I forge austerities of rhyme.
Scheme | abBbA cdddc xexex aBbbA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111111 11011101 0101110 1111101 11111 1111101 1111111 01110111 11111101 10110101 1110101 1110101 11110100 11010111 0101011 11101101 0101110 11111101 1111101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 674 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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