Analysis of A highly valuable chain of thoughts
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
HAD cigarettes no ashes,
And roses ne'er a thorn,
No man would be a funker
Of whin, or burn, or bunker.
There were no need for mashies,
The turf would ne'er be torn,
Had cigarettes no ashes,
And roses ne'er a thorn.
Had cigarettes no ashes,
And roses ne'er a thorn,
The big trout would not ever
Escape into the river.
No gut the salmon smashes
Would leave us all forlorn,
Had cigarettes no ashes,
And roses ne'er a thorn.
But 'tis an unideal
Sad world in which we're born,
And things will 'go contrairy'
With Martin and with Mary:
And every day the real
Comes bleakly in with morn,
And cigarettes have ashes,
And every rose a thorn.
Scheme | ABccabAB ABccxbAB dbccdbab |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110 010101 111101 1111110 101111 011111 101110 010101 101110 010101 0111110 0101010 1101010 111101 101110 010101 1111 110111 01111 1100110 0100101 11011 001110 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 975 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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