Analysis of Freedom

John Barbour 1320 – 1395 (Aberdeen)



A! Fredome is a noble thing!
Fredome mays man to haiff liking;
Fredome all solace to man giffis,
He levys at ese that frely levys!
A noble hart may haiff nane ese,
Na ellys nocht that may him plese,
Gyff fredome fail; for fre liking
Is yarnyt our all othir thing.
Na he that ay has levyt fre
May nocht knaw weill the propyrte,
The angyr, na the wretchyt dome
That is couplyt to foule thyrldome.
Bot gyff he had assayit it,
Than all perquer he suld it wyt;
And suld think fredome mar to prise
Than all the gold in warld that is.
Thus contrar thingis evirmar
Discoweryngis off the tothir ar.


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Poetic Form
Metre 0110101 1111110 1110111 1111111 01011111 1111111 1111110 1110111 1111111 111101 011011 111111 111111 1111111 0111111 11010111 1111 11011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 597
Words 115
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 461
Words per stanza (avg) 113
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 07, 2023

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John Barbour

John Barbour, was a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots. more…

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