Analysis of Indiana
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
Our Land-- our Home-- the common home indeed
Of soil-born children and adopted ones--
The stately daughters and the stalwart sons
Of Industry--: All greeting and godspeed!
O home to proudly live for, and if need
Be proudly die for, with the roar of guns
Blent with our latest prayer--. So died men once...
Lo Peace...! As we look on the land They freed--
Its harvests all in ocean-over flow
Poured round autumnal coasts in billowy gold--
Its corn and wine and balmed fruits and flow'rs--,
We know the exaltation that they know
Who now, steadfast inheritors, behold
The Land Elysian, marvelling 'This is ours?'
| Scheme | ABBAABCADEBDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101010101 1111000101 0101000101 1100110010 1111011011 1101110111 11101011111 1111110111 1101010101 110101011 110101101 1101111 111101 01111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 604 |
| Words | 108 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 467 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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