Analysis of Where is the Slave
Thomas Moore 1779 (Dublin) – 1852 (Bromham)
Oh, where's the slave so lowly,
Condemn'd to chains unholy,
Who, could he burst
His bonds at first,
Would pine beneath them slowly?
What soul, whose wrongs degrade it,
Would wait till time decay'd it,
When thus its wing
At once may spring
To the throne of Him who made it?
Farewell, Erin, -- farewell, all,
Who live to weep our fall!
Less dear the laurel growing,
Alive, untouch'd and blowing,
Than that whose braid
Is pluckd to shade
The brows with victory glowing.
We tread the land that bore us,
Her green flag glitters o'er us,
The friends we've tried
Are by our side,
And the foe we hate before us.
Farewell, Erin, -- farewell, all,
Who live to weep our fall!
Scheme | aabbaccddc EE ddffdgghhg EE |
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Poetic Form | Song |
Metre | 1101110 0111010 1111 1111 1101110 1111011 1111011 1111 1111 10111111 11011 1111101 1101010 0101010 1111 1111 01110010 1101111 01110101 0111 11101 00111011 11011 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 2, 10, 2 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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