Analysis of Our President
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
GOD help him! Ay, and let us help him, too,
Help him with our one hundred million minds
Molded to loyalty, so that he finds
The faith of the Republic pulsing through
All clashes of opinion, faith still true
To its divine young vision of mankind's
Freedom and brotherhood. May all the winds,
North, south, east, west, waft him our honor due!
For he is one who, when the tempest breaks
In shattering fury, wild with thunder-jars
And javelins of lightning that transform
All the familiar scene to horror, makes
A hush about him in the heart of storm,
Remembering the quiet of the stars.
Scheme | ABBAABCADEFDFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 11110110101 1011001111 0110010101 1101010111 1101110111 100101101 11111110101 1111110101 01001011101 01110101 1001011101 0101100111 0100010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 459 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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