Analysis of Speak Now For Peace
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen,
Stand now for peace, (though anger breaks your heart),
Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen.
Lady of Light, speak, though you speak alone,
Though your voice may seem as a dove’s in this howling flood,
It is heard to-night by every senate and throne.
Though the widening battle of millions and millions of men
Threatens to-night to sweep the whole of the earth,
Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again.
| Scheme | AXA BXB CXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101011001 1111110111 11110101011 1011111101 1111110101101 1111111001001 101001011001011 10111101101 1101101011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 478 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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