Analysis of In Trafalgar Square
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
THE stars shone faint through the smoky blue;
The church-bells were ringing;
Three girls, arms laced, were passing through,
Tramping and singing.
Their heads were bare: their short skirts swung
As they went along;
Their scarf-covered breasts heaved up, as they sung
Their defiant Song.
It was not too clean, their feminine lay,
But it thrilled me quite
With its challenge to taskmaster villainous day
And infamous night,
With its threat to the robber Rich, the Proud,
The respectable Free.
And I laughed and shouted to them aloud,
And they shouted to me!
'Girls, that's the shout, the shout we shall utter
When, with rifles and spades,
We stand, with the old Red Flag aflutter,
On the barricades!'
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 011110101 011010 11110101 10010 11011111 11101 1110111111 10101 1111111001 11111 11101101001 01001 1111010101 001001 0110101101 011011 1101011110 111001 1110111010 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 686 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 550 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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