Analysis of A Song Inscribed To The Fremont Clubs

John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)



BENEATH thy skies, November!
Thy skies of cloud and rain,
Around our blazing camp-fires
We close our ranks again.
Then sound again the bugles,
Call the muster-roll anew;
If months have well-nigh won the field,
What may not four years do?
For God be praised! New England
Takes once more her ancient place;
Again the Pilgrim's banner
Leads the vanguard of the race.
Then sound again the bugles, etc.
Along the lordly Hudson,
A shout of triumph breaks;
The Empire State is speaking,
From the ocean to the lakes.
Then sound again the bugles, etc.
The Northern hills are blazing,
The Northern skies are bright;
And the fair young West is turning
Her forehead to the light!
Then sound again the bugles,. etc.
Push every outpost nearer,
Press hard the hostile towers!
Another Balaklava,
And the Malakoff is ours!
Then sound again the bugles,
Call the muster-roll anew;
If months have well-nigh won the field,
What may not four years do?


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Poetic Form
Metre 0111010 111101 011010110 1110101 1101010 1010101 11111101 111111 1111110 1110101 0101010 101101 1101010100 010110 011101 01001110 1010101 1101010100 0101110 010111 00111110 010101 1101010100 1100110 1101010 0101 001110 1101010 1010101 11111101 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 907
Words 163
Sentences 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 31
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 730
Words per stanza (avg) 161
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. more…

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