Analysis of America the Beautiful
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
Scheme | ababCDED fxfxCgxg xhxhCiai jxjxCDED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001101 110111 110101 01011 01000100 111111 0111110 111101 11001101 110101 0101101 010100 01000100 1111001 01110101 110001 11001101 01001 11111101 010111 01000100 111101 110111 0100101 110011001 110101 1100101 11101 01000100 111111 0111110 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,040 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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