Analysis of Here's to the Mice!
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
(Written with the hope that the socialists might yet dethrone Kaiser and Czar.)
Here's to the mice that scare the lions,
Creeping into their cages.
Here's to the fairy mice that bite
The elephants fat and wise:
Hidden in the hay-pile while the elephant thunder rages.
Here's to the scurrying, timid mice
Through whom the proud cause dies.
Here's to the seeming accident
When all is planned and working,
All the flywheels turning,
Not a vassal shirking.
Here's to the hidden tunneling thing
That brings the mountain's groans.
Here's to the midnight scamps that gnaw,
Gnawing away the thrones.
Scheme | X ABXCBXC XDDDDXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011010011011001 110111010 1001110 11010111 0100101 100011101001010 110100101 110111 11010100 1111010 10110 101010 110101001 110101 1101111 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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