Analysis of Song written At Mr. Thomson’s Request
Joanna Baillie 1762 (Bothwell) – 1851 (Hampstead)
AS A KIND OF INTRODUCTION
TO HIS IRISH MELODIES.
SWEET power of song! that canst impart
To lowland swain or mountaineer
A gladness thrilling through the heart,
A joy so tender and so dear!
Sweet power! that on a foreign strand
Canst the rough soldier's bosom move
With feelings of his native land,
As gentle as an infant's love!
Sweet power! that makest youthful heads,
With thistle, leek or shamrock crowned,
Nod proudly as the carol sheds
Its spirit through the social round!
Sweet power! that cheerest the daily toil
Of cottage maid or beldame poor,
The ploughman on the furrowed soil,
Or herd-boy on the lonely moor:
Or he by bards the Shepherd hight,
Who mourns his maiden's broken tie,
Till the sweet plaint, in woe's despite,
Hath made a bliss of agony:
Sweet power of song! thanks flow to thee
From every kind and gentle breast!
Let Erin's--Cambria's minstrels be
With Burns's tuneful spirit blest!
Scheme | XX ABABCXCXDEDEFXFXGXGHHIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010 1110100 110111101 111110 0110101 01110011 110110101 10110101 11011101 11011101 11011101 1101111 11010101 11010101 110110101 1101111 0110101 11110101 11110101 1111101 10110101 11011100 110111111 110010101 111101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 890 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 24 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 358 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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