Analysis of Prairie greyhounds (C.P.R. "NO. 1," WESTBOUND)
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
I swing to the sunset land--
The world of prairie, the world of plain,
The world of promise and hope and gain,
The world of gold, and the world of grain,
And the world of the willing hand.
I carry the brave and bold--
The one who works for the nation's bread,
The one whose past is a thing that's dead,
The one who battles and beats ahead,
And the one who goes for gold.
I swing to the "Land to Be,"
I am the power that laid its floors,
I am the guide to its western stores,
I am the key to its golden doors,
That open alone to me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 011100111 011100101 011100111 00110101 1100101 011110101 011110111 011100101 0011111 1110111 110101111 110111101 110111101 1100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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