Analysis of Anthem Singer
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Ooh, say can you see.
By the dawn's early light.
That arising upon the horizon,
Are those who've lied...
Nowhere in sight.
Oh say, could it be,
They are hiding somewhere ho-ooo-ping...
A forgiveness to them comes?
ooo...or will they run,
From lies...
They've told to deceive,
To keep believed.
'Listen.
Isn't that nice.
That's the first time I have heard,
Our neighbor sing like that.
Although a little flat.
But still nice.'
'Yeah, I know.
Wait a minute.
He's beginning to sing again.
Listen closely.
And...
I remember saying he wasn't patriotic.
A nonconformist.'
'Hmmm...
The tune is right.
But,
He must have forgotten the words.
That and the other song,
That begins...
Oh beautiful for sacred skies.
For amber waves of grain.
And purple mountains with fruited plains?
What on Earth was that composer smoking?'
'He's singing again.
Listen.'
'I know one thing,
He's no Luther.'
'Luther?
Luther who?'
'With a name like that,
No wonder I've never heard of him.'
Scheme | abcxb adxcexx Cfxggf xhiaxxx jbhxxxexxd iC dk kx gj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 101101 1010010010 1101 101 11111 11101111 0010111 1111 11 11101 1101 10 1011 1011111 1010111 10101 111 111 1010 10101101 1010 0 101010110010 0010 1 0111 1 11101001 100101 101 11001101 110111 01010111 1111101010 11001 10 1111 1110 10 101 10111 110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 987 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 37 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 6, 7, 10, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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