Analysis of Song!
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
A thousand million souls arise
Out of the cradle of to-day,
And, like a living storm, beneath the skies
Go thundering on their fatal way!
But ere to-morrow’s sun
His ancient round hath run,
That storm is past—and Where are they?
Is asked of Faith by pale Dismay:
“Where—where are they?”
And Faith—even Faith herself—hath not a word to say.
With her serene assurance thrown
Like moonlight into the Unknown
And all her clasping tendrils curled
About the steadfast pillars of the never-failing world,
To that wild question of Dismay
Yet hath she not a word to say,
And only lifts her patient eyes
Up from the earth’s change-trampled sod,
To fix them, out in the eternal skies,
On all she knoweth—God.
Scheme | ABABCCBBBBDDEEBBAFAF |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 01010101 11010111 0101010101 110011101 11111 110111 11110111 11111101 1111 0110101110111 10010101 1101001 010111 0101101010101 11110101 11110111 01010101 11011101 1111000101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 770 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 548 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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