Analysis of London Types: Bluecoat Boy
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
So went our boys when Edward Sixth, the King,
Chartered Christ's Hospital, and died. And so
Full fifteen generations in a string
Of heirs to his bequest have had to go.
Thus Camden showed, and Barnes, and Stillingfleet,
And Richardson, that bade our Lovelace be;
Thus to his Genevieve young S. T. C.
With thousands else that, wandering up and down,
Quaint, privileged, liked and reputed well,
Made the great School a part of London Town
Patent as Paul's and vital as Bow Bell:
The old School nearing exile, day by day,
To certain clay-lands somewhere Horsham way.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110101 101100101 101010001 1111011111 11010101 0100111011 111101111 11011100101 110100101 1011011101 1011010111 011101111 110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 571 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 441 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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