Analysis of Church Building
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825 – 1911
Uncle Jacob often told us,
Since freedom blessed our race
We ought all to come together
And build a meeting place.
So we pinched, and scraped, and spared,
A little here and there:
Though our wages was but scanty,
The church did get a share.
And, when the house was finished,
Uncle Jacob came to pray;
He was looking mighty feeble,
And his head was awful gray.
But his voice rang like a trumpet;
His eyes looked bright and young;
And it seemed a mighty power
Was resting on his tongue.
And he gave us all his blessing -
'Twas parting words he said,
For soon we got the message
The dear old man was dead.
But I believe he's in the kingdom,
For when we shook his hand
He said, 'Children, you must meet me
Right in the promised land;
'For when I done a moiling
And toiling here below,
Through the gate into the city
Straightway I hope to go.'
Scheme | XABA XCDC XEXE XFBF XGXG XHDH FIDI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 10101011 1101101 11111010 010101 1110101 010101 110101110 011101 0101110 1010111 11101010 0111101 11111010 111101 01101010 110111 01111110 110111 1111010 011111 110110010 111111 11101111 100101 111101 010101 10101010 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 819 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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