Analysis of Ye Spirits Of The Free
Ye spirits of the free,
Can ye forever see
Your brother man
A yoked and scourged slave
Chains dragging to his grave,
And raise no hand to save?
Say if you can.
In pride and pomp to roll,
Shall tyrants from the soul
God’s image tear,
And call the wreck their own,—
While, from the eternal throne,
They shut the stifled groan
And bitter prayer?
Shall he a slave be bound,
Whom God hath doubly crowned
Creation’s lord ?
Shall men of Christian name,
Without a blush of shame
Profess their tyrant claim
From God’s own word ?
No! at the battle cry,
A host prepared to die,
Shall arm for fight—
But not with martial steel,
Grasped with a murderous zeal ;
No arms their foes shall fell,
But love and light.
Firm on Jehovah’s laws,
Strong in their righteous cause,
They march to save.
And vain the tyrant’s mail,
Against their battle—hail,
Till cease the woe and wail
Of tortured slave !
Scheme | AABCCCBDDEFFFEGGHIIIJKKLMMNLOPCQQQC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (26%) |
Metre | 110101 110101 1101 01011 110111 011111 1111 010111 110101 1101 010111 1100101 110101 0101 110111 111101 0101 111101 010111 011101 1111 110101 010111 1111 111101 1101001 111111 1101 1111 101101 1111 010101 011101 110101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 868 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 35 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 680 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 164 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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