Analysis of Jeanne d'Arc Returns
Henry Van Dyke 1852 (Germantown, Pennsylvania) – 1933 (Princeton, New Jersey)
What hast thou done, O womanhood of France,
Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife,
What hast thou done, amid this fateful strife,
To prove the pride of thine inheritance
In this fair land of freedom and romance?
I hear thy voice with tears and courage rife,--
Smiling against the swords that seek thy life,--
Make answer in a noble utterance:
"I give France all I have, and all she asks.
Would it were more! Ah, let her ask and take:
My hands to nurse her wounded, do her tasks,--
My feet to run her errands through the dark,--
My heart to bleed in triumph for her sake,--
And all my soul to follow thee, Jeanne d'Arc!"
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111011 100101011 1111011101 1101110100 0111110001 1111110101 1001011111 1100010100 1111110111 1101110101 1111010101 1111010101 1111010101 01111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 632 |
| Words | 125 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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