Analysis of Song Composed For Washington's Birthday
Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)
A hundred years and more ago
A little child was born --
To-day, with pomp of martial show,
We hail his natal morn.
Who guessed as that poor infant wept
Upon a woman's knee,
A nation from the centuries stept
As weak and frail as he?
Who saw the future on his brow
Upon that happy morn?
We are a mighty nation now
Because that child was born.
To him, and to his spirit's scope,
Besides a glorious home,
We owe that what we have and hope
Are more than Greece and Rome.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01010101 010111 11111101 111101 11111101 010101 010101001 110111 11010111 011101 11010101 011111 11011101 0101001 11111101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 458 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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