Analysis of It Was a Famous Victory
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
It was a summer evening;
Old Kaspar was at home,
Sitting before his cottage door--
Like in the Southey pome--
And near him, with a magazine,
Idled his grandchild, Geraldine.
"Wy don't you ask me," Kaspar said
To the child upon the floor,
"Why don't you ask me what I did
When I was in the war?
They told me that each little kid
Would surely ask me what I did.
"I've had my story ready
For thirty years or more."
"Don't bother, Grandpa," said the child;
"I find such things a bore.
Pray leave me to my magazine,"
Asserted little Geraldine.
Then entered little Peterkin,
To whom the gaffer said:
"You'd like to hear about the war?
How I was left for dead?"
"No. And, besides," declared the youth,
"How do I know you speak the truth?"
Arose the Wan, embittered man,
The hero of this pome,
And walked, with not unsprightly step,
Down to the Soldiers' Home,
Where he, with seven other men,
Sat swapping lies till half-past ten.
Scheme | XABACC DBEBEE XBXBCC XDBDFF XAXAGG |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 1101010 110111 10011101 10011 0111010 1011001 11111101 1010101 11111111 111001 11111101 11011111 1111010 110111 1101101 111101 1111110 01010001 11010010 11011 11110101 111111 10010101 11111101 01010101 010111 011111 110101 11110101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 926 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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