Analysis of In The Valley Of The Waters
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
In the valley of the waters we wept o'er the day
When the host of the stranger made Salem his prey,
And our heads on our bosoms all droopingly lay,
And our hearts were so full of the land far away.
The song they demanded in vain--it lay still
In our souls as the wind that died on the hill;
They called for the harp--but our blood they shall spill
Ere our right hand shall teach them one tone of our skill.
All stringlessly hung on the willow's sad tree,
As dead as her dead leaf those mute harps must be;
Our hands may be fetter'd--our tears still are free,
For our God and our glory--and, Sion!--Oh, thee.
Scheme | AAAA BBBB CCCC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 00101010111001 101101011011 01011101111 0101011101101 01101001111 010110111101 111011101111 11011111111101 11110111 11101111111 1011110101111 1101010100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
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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