Analysis of Zaza, The Female Slave
O, my country, my country!
How long I for thee,
Far over the mountain,
Far over the sea.
Where the sweet Joliba,
Kisses the shore,
Say, shall I wander
By thee never more?
Where the sweet Joliba kisses the shore,
Say, shall I wander by thee never more.
Say, O fond Zurima,
Where dost thou stay?
Say, doth another
List to thy sweet lay?
Say, doth the orange still
Bloom near our cot?
Zurima, Zurima,
Am I forgot?
O, my country, my country, how long I for thee,
Far over the mountain, far over the sea.
Under the baobab
Oft have I slept,
Fanned by sweet breezes
That over me swept.
Often in dreams
Do my weary limbs lay
'Neath the same baobab,
Far, far away.
O, my country, my country, how long I for thee,
Far over the mountain, far over the sea.
O, for the breath
Of our own waving palm,
Here, as I languish,
My spirit to calm-
O, for a draught
From our own cooling lake,
Brought by sweet mother,
My spirit to wake.
O, my country, my country, how long I for thee,
Far over the mountain, far over the sea.
Scheme | aaxabcdccc efdfxgegAA bhxhxfbfAA xexexidiAA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 1110110 11111 110010 11001 1011 1001 11110 11101 10111001 1111011101 1111 1111 11010 11111 110101 11101 11 1101 111011011111 11001011001 1001 1111 11110 11011 1001 111011 1011 1101 111011011111 11001011001 1101 1101101 11110 11011 1101 1101101 11110 11011 111011011111 11001011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 972 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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