Analysis of Tis Finished

Henry Clay Work 1832 (Middletown, Connecticut) – 1884 (Hartford, Connecticut)



'Tis finished! 'tis ended!
The dread and awful task is done;
Tho' wounded and bleeding,
'tis ours to sing the vict'ry won,
Our nation is ransom'd--our enemies are overthrown
And now, now commoners, the brightest era ever known.

Then sing hallelujah! sing hallelujah!
Glory be to God on high!
For the old flag with the high white flag
is hanging in the azure sky.

Ye joy bells! ye peace-bells!
Oh never, never music rang,
So sweetly, so grandly, since angels in the advent sang,
Your message is gladness to myriads of waiting souls,
As onward and world-ward the happy, happy echo rolls.

Come patriots! come freedom!
Come join your every heart and voice;
We've wept with the weeping--now let us wish the blest rejoice,
With armies of victors who round about the white throne stand--
With Lincoln, the Martyr and Liberator of his land.


Scheme XAXABB XCXC XDDEE XFFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 110110 01010111 110010 11011011 10101110100101 01110001010101 110101010 1011111 101110111 11000101 111111 11010101 1101101100011 11011111101 11001101010101 1100110 111100101 11101011110101 11011011010111 11001001000111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 821
Words 146
Sentences 14
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 5, 5
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 162
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Clay Work

Henry Clay Work was an American composer and songwriter. more…

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