Analysis of Jerusalem
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
AT last, at last the Crescent
Falls back before the Cross.
Great spirits, incandescent
With longing and with loss,
Gleam from the clouds, crusaders
Who knew no requiem
While Saladin's invaders
Possessed Jerusalem.
King David harps for Zion
A glad, celestial psalm;
The face of the young lion
Is toward the sacred palm;
New Europe's noblest nation
Has won the diadem
Of him who brings salvation
To thee, Jerusalem.
Isaiah, Hosea, Amos,
Who cried against thy sin,
Whose vision saw thy famous
Bright bulwarks beaten in
And made a cup of trembling,
God's house a broken gem,
On all the winds assembling
Comfort Jerusalem.
The Christ, Messiah proven,
Whose Gentile armies free
Thy walls, not battle-cloven,
But won with jubilee;
As when thy people, pressing,
Would touch His garment's hem,
Enters with love and blessing
Thy gates, Jerusalem.
Arise and shine, O City,
The joy of all the earth!
Show poverty God's pity;
Teach misery God's mirth.
Be thou to all the nations
A light, ay, even to them
Who wrought thy tribulations,
Holy Jerusalem!
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEGEHEDIJIJKHKDELELKHKDLMLMNHND |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 1111010 110101 110010 110011 1101010 111100 11010 010100 1101110 010101 0110110 1010101 1101010 11010 1111010 110100 1001010 110111 1101110 11100 01011100 110101 11010100 100100 0101010 11101 111101 11110 1111010 11111 1011010 110100 0101110 011101 1100110 110011 1111010 0111011 111010 100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,006 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 40 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 819 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 175 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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