Analysis of In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of What Was in His Mind to Write after Section
James Clerk Maxwell 1831 (Edinburgh, Scotland) – 1879 (Cambridge, England)
Rigid Body (sings).
Gin a body meet a body
Flyin’ through the air,
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? and where?
Ilka impact has its measure,
Ne’er a ane hae I,
Yet a’ the lads they measure me,
Or, at least, they try.
Gin a body meet a body
Altogether free,
How they travel afterwards
We do not always see.
Ilka problem has its method
By analytics high;
For me, I ken na ane o’ them,
But what the waur am I?
Scheme | x Ababxcac Aaxaxcxc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 10101010 1101 10101010 11101 10011110 10111 10011101 11111 10101010 0101 1110100 11111 10101110 10101 11111111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 422 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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