Analysis of Home
There is a land, of every land the pride,
Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside;
Where brighter suns dispense serener light,
And milder moons emparadise the night;
A land of beauty, virtue, valour, truth,
Time-tutor'd age, and love-exalted youth;
The wand'ring mariner, whose eye explores
The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores,
Views not a realm so bountiful and fair,
Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air.
In ev'ry clime the magnet of his soul,
Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole;
For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace,
The heritage of nature's noblest race,
There is a spot of earth, supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest,
Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside
His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride,
While in his soften'd looks benignly blend
The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend:
Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife,
Strews with fresh flowers the narrow path of life;
In the clear heaven of her delightful eye
An angel-guard of loves and graces lie;
Around her knees domestic duties meet,
And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet.
Where shall that land, that spot of earth, be found?
Art thou a man? a patriot? look around;
Oh, thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam,
That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHAAIIJJKKLLMMNN |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011100101 011101010101 11010111 0101101 011101011 1101010101 0111001101 01001010101 1101110001 1101010101 011010111 110101111 10111100101 0100110101 11011101001 0101011101 11110101 1101010001 1011010101 01001010101 1101010101 11110010111 00110100101 1101110101 0101010101 0101101101 1111111111 11010100101 111110111 1111001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,292 |
Words | 224 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 30 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,022 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 222 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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