Analysis of Up North
Mary Hannay Foott 1846 (Glasgow) – 1918 (Bundaberg)
Into Thy hands let me fall, O Lord,
Not into the hands of men,
And she thinned the ranks of the savage horde
Till they shrank to the mangrove fen.
In a rudderless boat, with a scanty store
Of food for the fated three,
With her babe and her stricken servitor
She fled to the open sea.
Oh, days of dolor and nights of drouth,
While she watched for a sail in vain,
Or the tawny tinge of a river mouth,
Or the rush of the tropic rain.
The valiant woman! Her feeble oar
Sufficed, and her fervent prayer
Was heard, though she reached but a barren shore,
And died with her darling there.
For the demons of murder and foul disgrace
On her hearthstone dared not light;
But the Angel of Womanhood held the place,
And its site is a holy site.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011111111 1010111 0110110101 1111011 00100110101 1110101 10100101 1110101 11110111 11110101 1010110101 10110101 010100101 0100101 1111110101 0110101 10101100101 101111 1010110101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 720 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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