Analysis of The Death of Sisera

Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)



When Deborah the prophetess ruled in God’s land,
And Sisera died under Jael’s fierce hand,
His mother looked forth at the close of the day,
When the roar of the war died in silence away:
And she cried, “Still his charriot tarries afar!
Are its wheels clogged about with the slaughter of war?”
And her damsels made answer, “Awhile yet they stay
To trample the fallen, dividing the prey.”
Day shut, and the stars that had doomed him to death
Rushed out, while to listen she pent in her breath;
But the sound of his chariot over the plain
Like a far roll of thunder, came never again


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Poetic Form
Metre 110001001011 01110111 11011101101 101101101001 011111101 111101101011 00111001111 11001001001 11001111111 11111011001 101111001001 101111011001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 601
Words 112
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 453
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Harpur

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