Analysis of Our Orders
Julia Ward Howe 1819 (New York City) – 1910 (Portsmouth)
WEAVE no more silks, ye Lyons looms,
To deck our girls for gay delights!
The crimson flower of battle blooms,
And solemn marches fill the night.
Weave but the flag whose bars to-day
Drooped heavy o’er our early dead,
And homely garments, coarse and gray,
For orphans that must earn their bread!
Keep back your tunes, ye viols sweet,
That poured delight from other lands!
Rouse there the dancer’s restless feet:
The trumpet leads our warrior bands.
And ye that wage the war of words
With mystic fame and subtle power,
Go, chatter to the idle birds,
Or teach the lesson of the hour!
Ye Sibyl Arts, in one stern knot
Be all your offices combined!
Stand close, while Courage draws the lot,
The destiny of human kind.
And if that destiny could fail,
The sun should darken in the sky,
The eternal bloom of Nature pale,
And God, and Truth, and Freedom die!
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 111011101 010101101 01010101 11011111 110110101 01010101 11011111 1111111 11011101 11010101 0101101001 01110111 110101010 11010101 110101010 11010111 11110001 11110101 01001101 01110011 01110001 001011101 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 842 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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