Analysis of Brandon
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
Born on the breast of the prairie, she smiles to her sire--the sun,
Robed in the wealth of her wheat-lands, gift of her mothering soil,
Affluence knocks at her gateways, opulence waits to be won.
Nuggets of gold are her acres, yielding and yellow with spoil,
Dream of the hungry millions, dawn of the food-filled age,
Over the starving tale of want her fingers have turned the page;
Nations will nurse at her storehouse, and God gives her grain for wage.
| Scheme | ABABCCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Acrostic |
| Metre | 1101101011101001 100110111101001 10011011001111 101110101001011 1101010110111 100101110101101 10111010110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 462 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 51 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 357 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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