Analysis of A Song For The Hills.
Charles Hamilton Musgrove 1871 (Kentucky) – 1926
Here is the freedom men die for,--die for but never know;
Here is the peace they pray for shrined in eternal snow;
Down on the plain the city moans with a human cry,
But here there is naught but silence,--peace, and the wide, wide sky.
Here are the dawn's first footfalls, and the twilight's last farewell,
The benediction of starlight, and the moon's sweet canticle;
Here is one spot as God made it, far from the plainsman's range,
Or the march of the cycling seasons with their everlasting change.
Down on the plain the city moans with a human cry,
And the man-gnomes delve and burrow for gold till they drop and die;
But here there is naught for conquest and the spoiler stands at bay,
For God still keeps one playground where He and His whirlwinds play.
Scheme | aaBb ccdd Bbee |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010111111101 1101111100101 1101010110101 11111110100111 11011100111 00101100111 1111111111011 1011010010110101 1101010110101 001110101111101 111111100010111 111111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 752 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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