Analysis of To Jane Addams at the Hague
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
I. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE
Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen,
Stand now for peace, (though anger breaks your heart),
Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen.
Lady of Light, speak, though you speak alone,
Though your voice may seem as a dove's in this howling flood,
It is heard to-night by every senate and throne.
Though the widening battle of millions and millions of men
Threatens to-night to sweep the whole of the earth,
Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again.
II. TOLSTOI IS PLOWING YET
Tolstoi is plowing yet. When the smoke-clouds break,
High in the sky shines a field as wide as the world.
There he toils for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake.
Ah, he is taller than clouds of the little earth.
Only the congress of planets is over him,
And the arching path where new sweet stars have birth.
Wearing his peasant dress, his head bent low,
Tolstoi, that angel of Peace, is plowing yet;
Forward, across the field, his horses go.
Scheme | X AXA BXB CDC E FXF DXD GEG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 101101011001 1111110111 11110101011 1011111101 1111110101101 1111111001001 101001011001011 10111101101 1101101011001 111101 1110110111 100110111101 11110101101 111101110101 100101101101 00101111111 1011011111 1110111101 1001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 951 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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