Analysis of Nell Barnes
William Henry Davies 1871 – 1940
They lived apart for three long years,
Bill Barnes and Nell his wife;
He took his joy from other girls,
She led a wicked life.
Yet ofttimes she would pass his shop,
With some strange man awhile;
And, looking, meet her husband's frown
With her malicious smile.
Until one day, when passing there,
She saw her man had gone;
And when she saw the empty shop,
She fell down with a moan.
And when she heard that he had gone
Five thousand miles away;
And that she's see his face no more,
She sickened from that day.
To see his face was health and life,
And when it was denied,
She could not eat, and broke her heart --
It was for love she died.
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XDBX DEXE AFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011111 110111 11111101 110101 1111111 111101 01010101 100101 01111101 110111 01110101 111101 01111111 110101 01111111 110111 11111101 011101 11110101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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