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 |
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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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