Analysis of Good Templars' Song
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Ye soldiers in the temperance cause,
Our work is but begun.
Oh! sit not down in idleness
And think the field is won.
Our lambs are straying from the fold,
The wolves are on the track:
Oh! can you sit and see them go,
Nor strive to bring them back?
O Good Templars!
There's work for us to-day.
Then gird your armor on again,
And only pause to pray.
Whichever way the eye may turn,
It sees the rum-shop stand
With open door and flowing bowl,
A viper in the land.
The grapes are hanging from the vines,
All ready for the press.
Before, behind, on every side
Are seeds of drunkenness.
Our foes are all untiring,
But God is with the right,
And we will conquer at the last-
Then onward to the fight!
Ay, onward to the battle-field,
Each woman, child, and man!
King Alcohol shall yet go down
With all his demon clan.
Scheme | XABAXCXC XDXD XEXEXXXB CFXFXGXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110001001 1011101 11110100 010111 101110101 011101 11110111 111111 1110 111111 11110101 010111 01010111 110111 11010101 010001 01110101 110101 010111001 111100 101111 111101 01110101 110101 11010101 110101 1101111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 814 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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