Analysis of Evening Hymn In The Hovels



'WE sow the fertile seed and then we reap it;
We thresh the golden grain; we knead the bread.
Others that eat are glad. In store they keep it,
While we hunger outside with hearts like lead.
Hallelujah!
'We hew the stone and saw it, rear the city.
Others inhabit there in pleasant ease.
We have no thing to ask of them save pity,
No answer they to give but what they please.
Hallelujah!
'Is it for ever, fathers, say, and mothers,
That we must toil and never know the light?
Is it for ever, sisters, say, and brothers,
That they must grind us dead here in the night?
Hallelujah!
'O we who sow, reap, knead, shall we not also
Have strength and pleasure of the food we make?
O we who hew, build, deck, shall we not also
The happiness that we have given partake?
Hallelujah!'


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Poetic Form
Metre 11010101111 1101011101 10111101111 1110111111 010 11010111010 1001010101 11111111110 1101111111 010 11110101010 1111010101 11110101010 1111111001 010 11111111110 1101010111 11111111110 01001111001 010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 760
Words 150
Sentences 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 587
Words per stanza (avg) 147
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams

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