Analysis of Bar Kochba
Emma Lazarus 1849 (New York City) – 1887 (New York City)
Weep, Israel! your tardy meed outpour
Of grateful homage on his fallen head,
That never coronal of triumph wore,
Untombed, dishonored, and unchapleted.
If Victory makes the hero, raw Success
The stamp of virtue, unremembered
Be then the desperate strife, the storm and stress
Of the last Warrior Jew. But if the man
Who dies for freedom, loving all things less,
Against world-legions, mustering his poor clan;
The weak, the wronged, the miserable, to send
Their death-cry's protest through the ages' span-
If such an one be worthy, ye shall lend
Eternal thanks to him, eternal praise.
Nobler the conquered than the conqueror's end!
Scheme | ABABCBCDCDEDEFE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110011011 1101011101 11011101 101001 11001010101 011101 1101010101 10110011101 1111010111 01110100111 01010100011 111110101 1111110111 0101110101 10010101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 625 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 500 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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