Analysis of The Green Mountain Boys
William Cullen Bryant 1794 (Cummington) – 1878 (New York City)
Here we halt our march, and pitch our tent
On the rugged forest ground,
And light our fire with the branches rent
By winds from the beeches round.
Wild storms have torn this ancient wood,
But a wilder is at hand,
With hail of iron and rain of blood,
To sweep and waste the land.
How the dark wood rings with voices shrill,
That startle the sleeping bird;
To-morrow eve must the voice be still,
And the step must fall unheard.
The Briton lies by the blue Champlain,
In Ticonderoga's towers,
And ere the sun rise twice again,
The towers and the lake are ours.
Fill up the bowl from the brook that glides
Where the fireflies light the brake;
A ruddier juice the Briton hides
In his fortress by the lake.
Build high the fire, till the panther leap
From his lofty perch in flight,
And we'll strenghten our weary arms with sleep
For the deeds of to-morrow night.
Scheme | ABABXCXC DEDEXFXF GHGHIJIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101101 1010101 01101010101 111011 11111101 1010111 111100111 110101 101111101 1100101 110110111 0011101 010110101 0001010 01011101 010001110 110110111 1010101 0110101 0110101 1101010101 1110101 0111010111 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 224 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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