Analysis of I Feel That I am Free
To me the sky looks bluer,
And the green grass greener still,
And earth's flowers seem more lovely
As they bloom on heath and hill.
There's a beauty breathing round me
Like a newborn Eden now,
And forgotten are the furrows
Grief has graven on my brow.
There is gladness in the sunshine,
As its gold light gilds the trees,
And I hear a voice of music
Singing to me in the breeze.
There is in my heart a lightness
That seemeth not of me,
For today I've burst from bondage,
And I feel that I am free.
Free in the golden sunshine,
Free in the fresh pure air,
Where the flowers of the forest
In their wild homes flourish fair.
Free to thought to give expression,
To sing, to dance, and show
That the stern world has not crushed me
With its weary weight of woe.
Are the years of care and sorrow
But a dark dream of the past,
Or this new life but a vision
That is all too bright to last?
How exaltingly my spirit
Flashes forth its newborn glee,
As amid rejoicing nature
I can feel that I am free.
I have neither friend nor loved one
To welcome me, nor home;
And lonely through the wide world
As a stranger I must roam;
I know not where tomorrow
To procure my daily bread,
And tonight the waving branches
Must canopy my head.
But if I had a palace,
If of friends a gladsome throng,
If some darling one were near me
To cheer with love and song,
If I'd riches which were boundless,
No more joyous could I be
Than what I am, exulting
In the thought that I am free.
Free in the bright glad sunshine,
Free in the fresh pure air,
My heart with gladness throbbing,
And on my brow no care.
There's the blue sky all above me -
Not a prison roof between -
And at my feet the flowers
Nestle in the verdure green.
Hark! I hear the breezes singing -
'Lift thy heart to God on high,
Who hath brought theee back from sorrow
To this world of hope and joy.'
And the little nodding flowers
In a chorus sing to me -
'If God from sin shall free thee,
Then thou shalt indeed be free!'
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Metre | 1101110 0011101 01101110 1111101 10101011 1010101 0010101 1110111 111001 1111101 01101110 1011001 11011010 11111 10111110 0111111 100101 100111 10101010 0111101 11111010 111101 10111111 1110111 10111010 1011101 11111010 1111111 11110 1011101 10101010 1111111 11101111 110111 0101011 1010111 111101 1011101 00101010 110011 1111010 111011 11101011 111101 11101010 1110111 1111010 0011111 100111 100111 111110 011111 10111011 1010101 0111010 100011 11101010 1111111 11111110 1111101 00101010 0010111 1111111 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,957 |
Words | 392 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 16, 16, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 64 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 302 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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