Analysis of Garrison
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
THE storm and peril overpast,
The hounding hatred shamed and still,
Go, soul of freedom! take at last
The place which thou alone canst fill.
Confirm the lesson taught of old —
Life saved for self is lost, while they
Who lose it in His service hold
The lease of God's eternal day.
Not for thyself, but for the slave
Thy words of thunder shook the world;
No selfish griefs or hatred gave
The strength wherewith thy bolts were hurled.
From lips that Sinai's trumpet blew
We heard a tender under song;
Thy very wrath from pity grew,
From love of man thy hate of wrong.
Now past and present are as one;
The life below is life above;
Thy mortal years have but begun
Thy immortality of love.
With somewhat of thy lofty faith
We lay thy outworn garment by,
Give death but what belongs to death,
And life the life that cannot die!
Not for a soul like thine the calm
Of selfish ease and joys of sense;
But duty, more than crown or palm,
Its own exceeding recompense.
Go up and on! thy day well done,
Its morning promise well fulfilled,
Arise to triumphs yet unwon,
To holier tasks that God has willed.
Go, leave behind thee all that mars
The work below of man for man;
With the white legions of the stars
Do service such as angels can.
Wherever wrong shall right deny
Or suffering spirits urge their plea,
Be thine a voice to smite the lie,
A hand to set the captive free!
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 010101 01010101 11110111 01110111 01010111 11111111 11101101 01110101 1111101 11110101 11011101 0111101 1111101 11010101 11011101 11111111 11010111 01011101 11011101 1010011 11111101 1111101 11110111 01011101 11011101 11010111 11011111 1101010 11011111 11010101 0111011 110011111 11011111 01011111 10110101 11011101 01011101 110010111 11011101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,333 |
Words | 261 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 40 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,067 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 259 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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