Analysis of Tobacco, Rum And Brandy
Waves pound wild 'gainst coastal rocks,
The night is black as coal;
Covert, away from mooring docks
Ten smugglers give their all.
The moon illuminates the sky
It highlights men and boats;
Oilskins donned to keep them dry
As sea-surf salts their coats.
A lookout stationed on the cliff
To sound his signal when,
He notes a troop patrolling - if...
He spies the excise men.
Below him are his hearty mates,
Each adept and handy,
Unloading scores of casks and crates...
Tobacco, rum and brandy.
Secreted well in ghostly caves
They store their pirate booty;
Thwarted, by the crashing waves,
The taxmen halt their duty.
As daylight breaks upon the beach,
The veil of darkness shed;
The ten are safely beyond reach,
At rest, at home, in bed.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG HGHG IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 1111101 011111 10011101 110111 0101001 11101 111111 111111 0110101 111101 11010101 110011 01111101 101010 01011101 011010 01010101 1111010 1010101 011110 1110101 011101 01110011 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 712 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
Excitement in the moonlight on the Cornish coast of Olde England within these 1998 quatrains
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