Analysis of Nancy Hanks
Harriet Monroe 1860 (Chicago) – 1936 (Arequipa)
Prairie child,
Brief as dew,
What winds of wonder
Nourished you?
Rolling plains
Of billowy green,
Far horizons,
Blue, serene;
Lofty skies
The slow clouds climb,
Where burning stars
Beat out the time:
These, and the dreams
Of fathers bold,
Baffled longings,
Hopes untold,
Gave to you
A heart of fire,
Love like deep waters,
Brave desire.
Ah, when youth's rapture
Went out in pain,
And all seemed over,
Was all in vain?
O soul obscure,
Whose wings life bound,
And soft death folded
Under the ground;
Wilding lady,
Still and true,
Who gave us Lincoln
And never knew:
To you at last
Our praise, our tears,
Love and a song
Through The nation’s years!
Mother of Lincoln,
Our tears, our praise;
A battle-flag
And the victor's bays!
Scheme | XABA XCXC XDXD XEXE ABXB BFBF XGXG XAHA XXXX HIXI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (90%) Tetractys (60%) Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 101 111 11110 101 101 111 1010 101 101 0111 1101 1101 1001 1101 1010 101 111 01110 11110 1010 11110 1101 01110 1101 1101 1111 01110 1001 1010 101 11110 0101 1111 101101 1001 10101 10110 101101 0101 00101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 711 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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