Analysis of The Loss Of Female Character

George Moses Horton 1779 (North Carolina) – 1883



See that fallen Princess! her splendor is gone--
The pomp of her morning is over;
Her day-star of pleasure refuses to dawn,
She wanders a nocturnal rover.

Alas! she resembles Jerusalem's fall,
The fate of that wonderful city;
When grief with astonishment rung from the wall,
Instead of the heart-cheering ditty.

When music was silent, no more to be rung,
When Sion wept over her daughter;
On grief's drooping willows their harps they were hung,
When pendent o'er Babylon's water.

She looks like some Star that has fall'n from her sphere,
No more by her cluster surrounded;
Her comrades of pleasure refuse her to cheer,
And leave her dethron'd and confounded.

She looks like some Queen who has boasted in vain,
Whose diamond refuses to glitter;
Deserted by those who once bow'd in her train,
Whose flight to her soul must be bitter.

She looks like the twilight, her sun sunk away,
He sets; but to rise again never!
Like the Eve, with a blush bids farewell to the day,
And darkness conceals her forever.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EBEB FXFX GBGB HBHB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 11101001011 011010110 01111001011 110001010 01101001001 011110010 11101001101 011011010 11011011111 11110010 1110111101 1110110 111111111101 111010010 0111001011 010010010 11111111001 110010110 01011111001 111011110 1110101101 111110110 10110111101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,009
Words 177
Sentences 10
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 131
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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George Moses Horton

George Moses Horton was an African-American poet and the first African American poet to be published in the Southern United States. His book was published in 1828 while he was still a slave; he remained a slave until he was emancipated late in the Civil War. more…

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