Analysis of The corn husker
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
Hard by the Indian lodges, where the bush
Breaks in a clearing, through ill-fashioned fields,
She comes to labour, when the first still hush
Of autumn follows large and recent yields.
Age in her fingers, hunger in her face,
Her shoulders stooped with weight of work and years,
But rich in tawny colouring of her race,
She comes a-field to strip the purple ears.
And all her thoughts are with the days gone by,
Ere might's injustice banished from their lands
Her people, that to-day unheeded lie,
Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010010101 1001011101 111110111 1101010101 1001010001 0101111101 110101101 1101110101 0101110111 1101010111 0101110101 1011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 560 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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