Analysis of The Bartholdi Statue
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
The land, that, from the rule of kings,
In freeing us, itself made free,
Our Old World Sister, to us brings
Her sculptured Dream of Liberty,
Unlike the shapes on Egypt's sands
Uplifted by the toil-worn slave,
On Freedom's soil with freemen's hands
We rear the symbol free hands gave.
O France, the beautiful! to thee
Once more a debt of love we owe
In peace beneath thy Colors Three,
We hail a later Rochambeau!
Rise, stately Symbol! holding forth
Thy light and hope to all who sit
In chains and darkness! Belt the earth
With watch-fires from thy torch uplit!
Reveal the primal mandate still
Which Chaos heard and ceased to be,
Trace on mid-air th' Eternal Will
In signs of fire: 'Let man be free!'
Shine far, shine free, a guiding light
To Reason's ways and Virtue's aim,
A lightning-flash the wretch to smite
Who shields his license with thy name!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD BXBE XFXF GBGB XEFE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 01110111 01010111 101110111 01011100 01011101 10010111 11011101 11010111 11010011 11011111 01011101 110101 11010101 11011111 01010101 11101111 0101011 11010111 1111110101 011101111 11110101 111011 01010111 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 834 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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