Analysis of A Song for Merry Harvest
Eliza Cook 1818 (London Road, Southwark) – 1889 (Wimbledon)
Bring forth the harp, and let us sweep its fullest, loudest string.
The bee below, the bird above, are teaching us to sing
A song for merry harvest; and the one who will not bear
His grateful part partakes a boon he ill deserves to share.
The grasshopper is pouring forth his quick and trembling notes;
The laughter of the gleaner’s child, the heart’s own music floats.
Up! up! I say, a roundelay from every voice that lives
Should welcome merry harvest, and bless the God that gives.
The buoyant soul that loves the bowl may see the dark grapes shine,
And gems of melting ruby deck the ringlets of the vine;
Who prizes more the foaming ale may gaze upon the plain,
And feast his eye with yellow hops and sheets of bearded grain;
The kindly one whose bosom aches to see a dog unfed
May bend the knee in thanks to see the ample promised bread.
Awake, then, all! ’tis Nature’s call, and every voice that lives
Shall welcome merry harvest, and bless the God that gives.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111110101 01010101110111 01110100011111 1101101110111 01011011101001 0101011011101 1111011100111 1101010010111 01011101110111 0111010101101 11010101110101 01111101011101 0101110111011 11010111010101 011111010100111 1101010010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 959 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 379 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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