Analysis of Street Scene—Little Lonsdale St.
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
I wish you'd seen that dirty little boy,
Finger at nose,
Peeking and ginking at some girls in rows
Seated on the high window-sills to rest.
One of the girls had hair as bright as corn.
And one was red.
And over their soft forms a glow was shed
From lamps new-lighted in the laundry there.
That boy, beneath them, wheeled a hand-cart full
Of cast-off busts
From sewing rooms. They looked like shells of lusts.
And all the girls around the windows laughed.
Scheme | ABBCDEEFGHBI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 1011 100111101 1010110111 1101111111 0111 0101110111 1111000101 1101110111 1111 1101111111 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 355 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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