Analysis of At General Grant's Tomb.
Afar my loyal spirit stirred
At mention of his name;
Afar in ringing notes I heard
The clarion voice of fame;
So to his tomb, hope long deferred,
With reverent step I came.
The pilgrim muse revivified
A half-forgotten day:
A slow procession, tearful-eyed,
In funeral array,
And from MacGregor's lonely side
A hero borne away.
Here sleeps he now, where long ago
Hath nature raised his mound:
A mighty channel far below,
Divided hills around,
Where countless thousands come and go
As to a shrine renowned.
With awe do strangers' eyes discern
A casket mid the green
Luxuriance of flower and fern;
Airy and cool and clean,
Unchanged from spring to spring's return,
This charnel chamber scene.
His country's weal his care and thought,
Beloved in peace was he;
Magnanimous in war - shall not
The nation grateful be,
And render at his burial spot
A testimonial free?
Oh, let us, ere the days come on
When energy is spent,
To him, the silent soldier gone,
Statesman and President,
On Riverside's majestic lawn
Uprear a monument.
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Metre | 01110101 110111 01010111 0100111 11111101 1100111 01011 010101 01010101 010001 011101 010101 11111101 110111 01010101 010101 11010101 110101 11110101 010101 111001 100101 01111101 11101 11011101 010111 01000111 010101 010111001 001001 11110111 110011 11010101 10010 110101 10100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,000 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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