Analysis of The Giant Oak
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
And then the sound of marching armies 'woke
Amid the branches of the soldier oak,
And tempests ceased their warring cry, and dumb
The lashing storms that muttered, overcome,
Choked by the heralding of battle smoke,
When these gnarled branches beat their martial drum.
| Scheme | AABBAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101110101 0101010101 011110101 010111010 1101001101 1111011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 275 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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