Analysis of Alleluia Height
Michael Earls 1875 – 1937
Yea, constant through the changeful year,
This queenly Height commands our praise.
To stand in meek unflinching hardihood
When fortune blows its storm of fright,
And work to full effect that good
Resolved in open days of clearer sight-
O, this is worth!
That daily sees the soul
To braver liberties give birth,
That heeds not time's annoy,
And hears surrounding voices roll
Perennial circumstance of joy.
Then come not only when the springtime blows
The old familiar strangeness of its breath
Across the long-lain snows,
And chants her resurrected songs
About the tombs of death;
Nor yet when summer glows
In roseate throngs
And works her plenitude of deeds
By tangled dells and waving meads,
Come here in beauty's pilgrimage:
Nor when the autumn reads
Illuminate her page
With tints of magicry besprent
Of iridescent wonderment-
(As scrolls in old monastic towers,
Done in an earnest far-off age).
But choose to come in winter hours
To see how character can live,
How noble character will give
Through desolate distress
And cold neglect's duress,
The fulness of its powers
And win the soul its victor sign.
Yea, come when in a peasant gown,
Amid the ample banners of the pine,
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Metre | 1101011 11101101 11010101 11011111 01110111 0101011101 1111 110101 11010011 111101 01010101 01001011 111101011 0101010111 010111 0100101 010111 111101 01001 010111 11010101 1101100 110101 010001 11111 1010100 110101010 10110111 111101010 11110011 11010011 110001 01110 011110 01011101 11100101 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,141 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 37 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 948 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 200 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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