Analysis of The Kansas Emigrants
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS.
WE cross the prairie as of old
The pilgrims crossed the sea,
To make the West, as they the East,
The homestead of the free!
We go to rear a wall of men
On Freedom's southern line,
And plant beside the cotton-tree
The rugged Northern pine!
We're flowing from our native hills
As our free rivers flow;
The blessing of our Mother-land
Is on us as we go.
We go to plant her common schools,
On distant prairie swells,
And give the Sabbaths of the wild
The music of her bells.
Upbearing, like the Ark of old,
The Bible in our van,
We go to test the truth of God
Against the fraud of man.
No pause, nor rest, save where the streams
That feed the Kansas run,
Save where our Pilgrim gonfalon
Shall flout the setting sun!
We'll tread the prairie as of old
Our fathers sailed the sea,
And make the West, as they the East,
The homestead of the free!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010100 11010111 010101 11011101 01101 11110111 110101 01010101 010101 110110101 1101101 010110101 111111 11110101 110101 01010101 010101 110111 0100101 11110111 010111 11111101 110101 1110101 110101 11010111 1010101 01011101 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 839 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 29 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 665 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 166 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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