Analysis of The corn husker



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
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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Emily Pauline Johnson

Emily Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake commonly known as E Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century Pauline Johnson was notable for her poems and performances that celebrated her aboriginal heritage One such poem is the frequently anthologized The Song My Paddle Sings Her poetry was published in Canada the United States and Great Britain Johnson was one of a generation of widely read writers who began to define a Canadian national literature more…

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