Analysis of Christmas Holidays
Thomas Hood 1799 (London) – 1845 (London)
Along the Woodford road there comes a noise
Of wheels, and Mr. Rounding's neat post-chaise
Struggles along, drawn by a pair of bays,
With Reverend Mr. Crow and six small boys,
Who ever and anon declare their joys
With trumping horns and juvenile huzzas,
At going home to spend their Christmas days,
And changing learning's pains for pleasure's toys.
Six weeks elapse, and down the Woodford way
A heavy coach drags six more heavy souls,
But no glad urchins shout, no trumpets bray,
The carriage makes a halt, the gate-bell tolls,
And little boys walk in as dull and mum
As six new scholars to the Deaf and Dumb!
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Metre | 0101011101 110101111 1001110111 11001010111 110010111 11101001 1101111101 01011111 1101010101 0101111101 1111011101 0101010111 0101101101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 481 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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