Analysis of Prosperity
George Moses Horton 1779 (North Carolina) – 1883
Come, thou queen of every creature,
Nature calls thee to her arms ;
Love sits gay on every feature,
Teeming with a thousand charms.
Meet me mid the wreathing bowers,
Greet me in the citron grove,
Where I saw the belle of flowers
Dealing with the blooms of love.
Hark! the lowly dove of Sharon,
Bids thee rise and come away,
From a vale both dry and barren,
Come to one where life is gay.
Come, thou queen of all the forest,
Fair Feronia, mountain glee,
Lovelier than the garden florist,
Or the goddess of the bee.
Come, Sterculus, and with pleasure,
Fertilize the teeming field;
From thy straw, dissolved at leisure,
Bid the lea her bounty yield.
Come, thou queen of every creature,
Nature calls thee to her arms;
Love sits gay on every feature,
Teeming with a thousand charms.
Scheme | ABAB cxcx dede xfxf agag ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 111110010 1011101 111110010 1010101 1110110 1100101 11101110 1010111 10101110 1110101 10111010 1111111 11111010 11101 1101010 1010101 110110 100101 11101110 1010101 111110010 1011101 111110010 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 785 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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