Analysis of Cotton Song
Jean Toomer 1894 (Washington, D.C.) – 1967 (Doylestown)
Come, brother, come. Lets lift it;
come now, hewit! roll away!
Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day
But lets not wait for it.
God's body's got a soul,
Bodies like to roll the soul,
Cant blame God if we dont roll,
Come, brother, roll, roll!
Cotton bales are the fleecy way,
Weary sinner's bare feet trod,
Softly, softly to the throne of God,
"We aint agwine t wait until th Judgment Day!
Nassur; nassur,
Hump.
Eoho, eoho, roll away!
We aint agwine to wait until th Judgment Day!"
God's body's got a soul,
Bodies like to roll the soul,
Cant blame God if we dont roll,
Come, brother, roll, roll!
Scheme | abbaCCCCbddbefbbCCCC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 1101111 111101 101010101 111111 110101 1011101 1111111 11011 10110101 101111 101010111 111110111101 11 1 11101 111110111101 110101 1011101 1111111 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 441 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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