Analysis of We're Coming! We're Coming!
We're coming, we're coming, the fearless and free,
Like the winds of the desert, the waves of the sea!
True sons of brave sires who battled of yore,
When England's proud lion ran wild on our shore!
We're coming, we're coming, from mountain and glen,
With hearts to do battle for freedom again;
Oppression is trembling as trembled before
The slavery which fled from our fathers of yore.
We're coming, we're coming, with banners unfurled,
Our motto is FREEDOM, our country the world;
Our watchword is LIBERTY-tyrants beware!
For the liberty army will bring you despair!
We're coming, we're coming, we'll come from afar,
Our standard we'll nail to humanity's car;
With shoutings we'll raise it, in triumph to wave,
A trophy of conquest, or shroud for the brave.
Then arouse ye, brave hearts, to the rescue come on!
The man-stealing army we'll surely put down;
They are crushing their millions, but soon they must yield,
For
freemen
have
risen
and taken the field.
Then arouse ye! arouse ye! the fearless and free,
Like the winds of the desert, the waves of the sea;
Let the north, west, and east, to the sea-beaten shore,
Resound
with a
liberty triumph
once more.
Scheme | aAbbccbb ddeeffgg xxhbcxxhaAb xxxb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011001001 101101001101 1111111011 110110111101 11011011001 11111011001 010110011001 0100111101011 11011011001 1010110101001 10111001001 101001011101 11011011101 101011101001 1111101011 01011011101 101111101011 01101011011 111011011111 1 10 1 10 01001 101101101001 101101001101 101101101101 1 10 10010 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,141 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 11, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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