Analysis of Ho For California!
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825 – 1911
Rouse ye, Yankees, from your dreaming!
See that vessel, strong and bold,
On her banner proudly streaming,
California for gold!
See a crowd around her gather,
Eager all to push from land!
They will have all sorts o' weather
Ere they reach the golden strand.
Rouse to action,
Fag and faction;
Ho, for mines of wealth untold!
Rally! Rally!
All for Cali-
Fornia in search of gold!
Away, amid the rush and racket,
Ho for the California packet!
Wake ye! O'er the surging ocean,
Loud above each coral cave,
Comes a sound of wild commotion
From the lands beyond the wave.
Riches, riches, greater--rarer,
Than Golconda's far-famed mines;
Ho for California's shores!
Where the gold so brightly shines.
O'er the ocean
All's commotion;
Ho for mines of wealth untold!
Countless treasure
Waits on pleasure;
Ho for California's gold!
Let us go the rush and racket,
On the Californian packet.
Hear the echo wildly ringing
Through our country far and wide!
Thousands leaving home and springing
Into the resistless tide.
Now our nation's roused from sleeping,
All alert and wide awake.
O, there's no such thing as keeping
Folks asleep when gold's the stake!
Old Oregon
We'll look not on;
Ho, for mines of wealth untold!
We'll take our way,
Without delay,
In search of gold--of glittering gold!
Here we go, amid the racket,
On the Californian packet!
Yankees! all who have the fever,
Go the rush without delay!
Take a spade and don your beaver;
Tell your friends you must away!
You will get a sight o' money;
Reap perhaps a hundred-fold!
O, it would be precious funny
To sit in a hall of gold!
Let's be going,
Gales are blowing,
Ho, all hands for digging gold!
Romance throwing
Colors glowing
Round these mines of wealth untold!
Ho, we go amid the racket,
On the Californian packet!
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Metre | 11101110 1110101 10101010 01011 10101010 1011111 11111110 1110101 1110 1010 1111101 1010 1110 10111 010101010 11001010 111001010 1011101 10111010 1010101 10101010 11111 110101 1011101 10010 1010 1111101 1010 1110 110101 11101010 1001010 10101010 11010101 10101010 01011 110101110 1010101 11111110 1011101 1100 1111 1111101 11101 0101 011111001 11101010 1001010 10111010 1010101 10101110 1111101 11101110 1010101 11111010 1100111 1110 1110 1111101 0110 1010 1111101 11101010 1001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,708 |
Words | 309 |
Sentences | 32 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 16, 16, 16 |
Lines Amount | 64 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 342 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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