Analysis of American Poetry
Lucretia Maria Davidson 1808 (Plattsburgh) – 1825 (Plattsburgh)
A FRAGMENT,
(Written in her fifteenth year.)
Must every shore ring boldly to the voice
Of sweet poetic harmony, save this?
Rouse thee, America! for shame! for shame!
Gather thy infant bands, and rise to join
Thy glimmering taper to the holy flame:—
Such honour, if no other, may be thine.
Shall Gallia's children sing beneath the yoke?
Shall Ireland's harpstrings thrill, though all unstrung?.
And must America, her bondage broke,
Oppression's blood-stains from her garment wrung,
Must she be silent? — who may then rejoice?
If she be tuneless, Harmony, farewell!
Oh! shame, America! wild freedom's voice
Echoes, 'shame on thee,' from her wild-wood dell.
Shall conquered Greece still sing her glories past?
Shall humbled Italy in ruins smile?
And canst thou then —
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010 1000011 11001110101 1101010011 1101001111 1011010111 11001010101 111110111 111010101 11011111 0101000101 11110101 1111011101 11111001 1101001101 1011110111 1101110101 1101000101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 778 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 594 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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