Analysis of The Barefooted Boys
By the sword of St. Michael
The old dragon through;
By David his sling
And the giant he slew;
Let us write us a rhyme,
As a record to tell
How the South on a time
Stormed the ramparts of Hell
With her barefooted boys!
Had the South in her border
A hero to spare,
Or a heart at her altar,
Lo! its life's blood was there!
And the black battle-grime
Might never disguise
The smile of the South
On the lips and the eyes
Of her barefooted boys!
There's a grandeur in fight,
And a terror the while,
But none like the light
Of that terrible smile -
The smile of the South,
When the storm-cloud unrolls
The lightening that loosens
The wrath in the souls
Of her barefooted boys!
It withered the foe
Like the red light that runs
Through the dead forest leaves,
And he fled from his guns!
Grew the smile to a laugh,
Rose the laugh to a yell.
As the iron-clad hoofs
Clattered back into Hell
From our barefooted boys!
Scheme | xaxabcbcd efefbgHgD ijijHdkxD xkxkxcxcd |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110 01101 11011 001011 111101 100111 101101 10111 1011 1010010 01011 1011010 111111 001101 11001 01101 101001 1011 100101 001001 11101 111001 01101 10111 0100110 01001 1011 11001 101111 101101 011111 101101 101101 101011 11011 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 889 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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