Analysis of The Jubilee Singers
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
VOICE of a people suffering long,
The pathos of their mournful song,
The sorrow of their night of wrong!
Their cry like that which Israel gave,
A prayer for one to guide and save,
Like Moses by the Red Sea's wave!
The Stern accord her timbrel lent
To Miriam's note of triumph sent
O'er Egypt's sunken armament!
The tramp that startled camp and town,
And shook the walls of slavery down,
The spectral march of old John Brown!
The storm that swept through battle-days,
The triumph after long delays,
The bondmen giving God the praise!
Voice of a ransomed race, sing on
Till Freedom's every right is won,
And slavery's every wrong undone!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101001 01011101 01011111 111111001 01111101 11010111 0101011 1111101 101010100 01110101 010111001 0111111 01111101 01010101 0110101 1101111 110100111 01100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 500 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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