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
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

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. more…

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