Analysis of The Peace Autumn
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
THANK God for rest, where none molest,
And none can make afraid;
For Peace that sits as Plenty's guest
Beneath the homestead shade!
Bring pike and gun, the sword's red scourge,
The negro's broken chains,
And beat them at the blacksmith's forge
To ploughshares for our plains.
Alike henceforth our hills of snow,
And vales where cotton flowers;
All streams that flow, all winds that blow,
Are Freedom's motive-powers.
Henceforth to Labor's chivalry
Be knightly honors paid;
For nobler than the sword's shall be
The sickle's accolade.
Build up an altar to the Lord,
O grateful hearts of ours!
And shape it of the greenest sward
That ever drank the showers.
Lay all the bloom of gardens there,
And there the orchard fruits;
Bring golden grain from sun and air,
From earth her goodly roots.
There let our banners droop and flow,
The stars uprise and fall;
Our roll of martyrs, sad and slow,
Let sighing breezes call.
Their names let hands of horn and tan
And rough-shod feet applaud,
Who died to make the slave a man,
And link with toil reward.
There let the common heart keep time
To such an anthem sung
As never swelled on poet's rhyme,
Or thrilled on singer's tongue.
Song of our burden and relief,
Of peace and long annoy;
The passion of our mighty grief
And our exceeding joy!
A song of praise to Him who filled
The harvests sown in years,
And gave each field a double yield
To feed our battle-years!
A song of faith that trusts the end
To match the good begun,
Nor doubts the power of Love to blend
The hearts of men as one!
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Metre | 11111101 011101 1111111 01011 11010111 01101 0111011 1101101 011110111 0111010 11111111 1101010 11110100 110101 11010111 0110 11110101 1101110 01110101 1101010 11011101 010101 11011101 110101 111010101 011001 101110101 110101 11111101 011101 11110101 011101 11010111 111101 11011101 111101 111010001 110101 010110101 0100101 01111111 010101 01110101 1110101 01111101 110101 110101111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,487 |
Words | 280 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 48 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 278 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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