This is an analysis of An Experiment In Translation by Alfred Austin.
Blest husbandmen! if they but knew their bliss!
For whom, from war remote, fair-minded Earth…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXabacccdeffafcgh fiajeXahXfXfeahXfhgfabdfcXcfdjcajXacjeiaffffhXXihicfXXbifcfjccXg
- Stanza lengths: 17,64,
- Metre: 1100011111 1101011101 1011010100 1101010111 1101101111 01001010101 1110111101 1101110101 0110000101 0101010101 0101001101 11110011101 1001110111 0101010101 1101010101 1001110011 1010010101 11100000101 1111110101 0100010101 1101111111 1101010001 1111010111 10110101011 0111010101 1111110001 1111010111 1101110100 11010100001 1101110101 0101010101 1001010101 1101011100 0111010001 1101011111 11010100101 1101110101 1110010101 0100011101 0101110001 1001110001 0100010101 1101110001 0101011101 1011010101 100101101001 11001010111 0101110001 01101010101 1101110111 111101001100 1101000101 1101010101 1011011111 0101011101 0011011101 1001011100 01011111001 1001110101 0111011101 1011010101 1101010101 01110100101 1100010111 1011010111 1101010001 0101010101 1001011101 1111010011 1111011101 110101011001 110010010111 1101001101 1101110101 11010100101 1101011101 100111010101 1001010001 11110100101 10101010011 0101000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 81
Repeated words/phrases
of, and
Anaphora
of, nor, to, such
