Analysis of Connoisseurs
Celia Thaxter 1835 (Portsmouth) – 1894 (Appledore Island)
O look at the horses and people!
How they hurry and trample and fight!
And the smoke blowing over the steeple,--
O look, how the guns shine bright!
See this one, this soldier, he's swinging
His sword over head in the air;
How the shot must be leaping and stinging!
See the men falling down everywhere!
Isn't this what the white folks call the war?
I wonder what they are doing it for.
And there's the big flag flying splendid,
White stars pretty red, pretty blue,
All torn. Do you think 'twill be mended,
And fly out again, good as new?
See the blue coats and gray coats, --I'm sorry
They bleed and they suffer and die;
What made all the fighting and worry?
Can you think of the reason why
They killed each other, the gray and the blue?
O dusky children, it was for you!
Scheme | ABABCDCDEE XFXFGHGHFF |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111010010 111001001 0011010010 1110111 111110110 11101001 1011110010 10110110 1011011101 1101111011 010111010 11101101 111111110 01101111 1011011110 11011001 111010010 11110101 1111001001 11101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 759 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 295 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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