Analysis of Invocation
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 1800 (Sault Ste. Marie) – 1842 ( Canada)
Rise bravest chief! of the mark of the noble deer,
With eagle glance,
Resume thy lance,
And wield again thy warlike spear!
The foes of thy line,
With coward design,
Have dared with black envy to garble the truth,
And stain with a falsehood thy valorous youth.
They say when a child, thou wert ta’en from the Sioux,
And with impotent aim,
To lessen thy fame
Thy warlike lineage basely abuse;
For they know that our band,
Tread a far distant land,
And thou noble chieftain art nerveless and dead,
Thy bow all unstrung, and thy proud spirit fled.
Can the sports of thy youth, or thy deeds ever fade?
Or those e’er forget,
Who are mortal men yet,
The scenes where so bravely thou’st lifted the blade,
Who have fought by thy side,
And remember thy pride,
When rushing to battle, with valour and ire,
Thou saw’st the fell foes of thy nation expire?
Can the warrior forget how sublimely you rose?
Like a star in the west,
When the sun’s sink to rest,
That shines in bright splendour to dazzle our foes?
Thy arm and thy yell,
Once the tale could repel
Which slander invented, and minions detail,
And still shall thy actions refute the false tale.
Rest thou, noblest chief! in thy dark house of clay,
Thy deeds and thy name,
Thy child’s child shall proclaim,
And make the dark forests resound with the lay;
Though thy spirit has fled,
To the hills of the dead,
Yet thy name shall be held in my heart’s warmest core,
And cherish’d till valour and love be no more.
Scheme | ABBACCDD XEEXFFGG HIIHJJKK LMMLNNOO PEEPGGQQ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 110110110101 1101 0111 0101111 01111 11001 11111011001 01101111 11101111101 011001 11011 11100101 1111101 101101 0110101101 1111011101 101111111101 11101 111011 01111011001 111111 001011 1101101101 11011111001 10100011111 101001 101111 11011110101 11011 101101 11001001001 01111001011 11101011111 11011 111101 0101101101 111011 101101 111111011101 011101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,830 |
Words | 269 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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