Analysis of Centennial



Come all ye friends of Liberty,
Who love our good old nation,
Let hands and hearts united be,
And beat the wide creation.
For this is our Centennial year,
The birthday of our nation;
For it is just one hundred years
That's stood our good old nation.

Centennial! Centennial!
Hurrah to the Centennial;
And many, many people gone
To our national Centennial.

To Philadelphia people went,
And more was sure to go, sir;
They say there was things to be seen
Of a hundred years ago, sir.
Come all ye sons of liberty,
That love our good old nation,
Unite and keep our country free,
And the stars and stripes a waving.

The revolutionary war was fought
To gain our independence,
That we a nation great may be,
Both free and independent.
They fought the British, far and near,
For freedom, and they gained it --
In Centennial years of Jubilee,
Let Columbia's sons maintain it.


Scheme ABABCBXB DDXD XEXEABAX XXAXCFAF
Poetic Form
Metre 11111100 11101110 11010101 0101010 1111001001 0111010 11111101 11101110 01000100 01100100 01010101 1101000100 10100101 0111111 11111111 10101011 11111100 11101110 10110101 00101010 00100111 1110010 11010111 110010 11010101 1100111 001001110 101001011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 853
Words 159
Sentences 10
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 8, 8
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 169
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Julia A Moore

Julia Ann Moore was an American poetaster. Like Scotland's William McGonagall, she is famed chiefly for writing notoriously bad poetry. more…

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