Analysis of A Lounger
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
He leant against a lamp-post, lost
In some mysterious reverie:
His head was bowed; his arms were crossed;
He yawned, and glanced evasively:
Uncrossed his arms, and slowly put
Them back again, and scratched his side--
Shifted his weight from foot to foot,
And gazed out no-ward, idle-eyed.
Grotesque of form and face and dress,
And picturesque in every way--
A figure that from day to day
Drooped with a limper laziness;
A figure such as artists lean,
In pictures where distress is seen,
Against low hovels where we guess
No happiness has ever been.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010111 010100100 11111101 11011 1110101 11010111 10111111 01111101 01110101 010001001 01011111 1101100 01011101 01010111 01110111 11001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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