Analysis of Under the Flag
Florence Earle Coates 1850 (Philadelphia) – 1927 (Philadelphia)
Under our own flag, still we will sail her—
Gallantly sail her, our own Ship of State;
Faiths we have lived by still shall avail her,
Hope at her prow, wing’d, expectant, elate!
Over the deeps of a perilous ocean,
Honor compelling, we still will sail on;
Giving, unfearing a loyal devotion,
Until, in life—in death, danger is gone.
Deem not that we, whom our fathers before us
Taught to love freedom and died to make free,
Coward shall fly, while the Heavens are o’er us,
Craft of the ether or boats under sea.
There is in valor that hearkens to duty—
Something that dearer may be than long years;
And in man’s service may be a beauty
Higher than glory, and deeper than tears.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE EXEX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 10101111110 10010101111 1111111010 1101101001 10011010010 1001011111 101010010 0101011011 111111010011 1111001111 10111010111 1101011101 11010110110 1011011111 0011011010 1011001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 698 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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