Analysis of Jack
On Blackfriar's Bridge
The chippies crawl
A penny for your pleasure
One and all
White Chapel wenches
Run in fear
Any distance
Is still too near
Once with a pox
Posies color the rot
In death, it matters not
What you've got
Blessed are those
Without want
Blessed be he that has
Cursed be he that don't
Where law and order was mostly nil
He practiced death with a surgeon's skill
From a heart that didn't feel
Society paid the bill
Some pointed at the royal line
They were treated quite unkind
Smart ones spoke not a line
Acting like they were blind
A royal carriage fled the scene
Through foggy London streets unseen
Catching him was a waste to start
He freed the world of soiled tarts
No one seemed to really care
What's right is right, what's fair is fair
They hadn't any business there
No word nor whisper was ever shared
I've told my story, I've told it well
No doubt Jack came straight from hell
Many men have made mistakes
In the end, you get what you take
And life just seems to hurry on
We can't replace the time that's gone
Or remember people we have known
And in the end, we're all alone
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Not one of them will confess
No one's responsible for the deaths
And Jack goes laughing home
And Jack goes laughing home
Scheme | xaxa xbxb xccc xxxx ddxd efef ggxx hhhx iixx xxjj xxxKK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 111 011 0101110 101 11010 101 1010 1111 1101 11001 011101 111 111 011 11111 11111 110101101 110110101 1011101 0100101 11010101 1010101 111101 101101 01010101 11010101 10110111 1101111 1111101 11111111 11010101 111101101 111101111 1111111 1011101 00111111 01111101 1110111 101010111 00011101 01110111 1111101 110100101 011101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,260 |
Words | 248 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
Who was Jack?
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Written on May 05, 2014
Submitted by lubigibbons on January 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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