Analysis of Death Of Gen. Jackson - An Eulogy
George Moses Horton 1779 (North Carolina) – 1883
Hark! from the mighty Hero's tomb,
I hear a voice proclaim!
A sound which fills the world with gloom,
But magnifies his name.
His flight from time let braves deplore,
And wail from state to state,
And sound abroad from shore to shore,
The death of one so great!
He scorn'd to live a captured slave,
And fought his passage through;
He dies, the prince of all the brave,
And bids the world adieu!
Sing to the mem'ry of his power,
Ye vagrant mountaineers,
Ye rustic peasants drop a shower
Of love for him in tears.
He wields the glittering sword no more,
With that transpiercing eye;
Ceases to roam the mountain o'er,
And gets him down to die!
Still let the nation spread his fame,
While marching from his tomb;
Aloud let all the world proclaim,
Jackson, forever bloom.
No longer to the world confin'd,
He goes down like a star;
He sets, and leaves his friends behind
To rein the steed of war.
Hark! from the mighty Hero's tomb,
I hear a voice proclaim!
A sound which fills the world with gloom,
But magnifies his name!
Scheme | ABAB cdcd efef gxgx chgh baba ixic ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11010101 110101 01110111 11011 11111101 011111 01011111 011111 11110101 011101 11011101 010101 11011110 11010 110101010 111101 110100111 1111 101101010 011111 11010111 110111 01110101 100101 11010101 111101 11011101 110111 11010101 110101 01110111 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,024 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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