Analysis of A Chant

James Thomson - Bysshe Vanolis 1834 ( Port Glasgow) – 1882 ( London, )



"While the trees grow,
While the streams flow,
While the winds blow,
We will be free:
Free as trees growing,
Free as streams flowing,
Free as winds blowing,
Evermore free."


Scheme AAABCCCB
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 1011 1011 1111 11110 11110 11110 101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 165
Words 31
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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James Thomson - Bysshe Vanolis

James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. more…

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