Analysis of No Master
William Henry Davies 1871 – 1940
Indeed this is the sweet life! my hand
Is under no proud man's command;
There is no voice to break my rest
Before a bird has left its nest;
There is no man to change my mood,
When I go nutting in the wood;
No man to pluck my sleeve and say --
I want thy labour for this day;
No man to keep me out of sight,
When that dear Sun is shining bright.
None but my friends shall have command
Upon my time, my heart and hand;
I'll rise from sleep to help a friend,
But let no stranger orders send,
Or hear my curses fast and thick,
Which in his purse-proud throat would stick
Like burrs. If I cannot be free
To do such work as pleases me,
Near woodland pools and under trees,
You'll get no work at all, for I
Would rather live this life and die
A beggar or a thief, than be
A working slave with no days free.
Scheme | AABBCDEEFFAAGGHHIIJKKII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101111 11011101 11111111 01011111 11111111 11110001 11111101 1111111 11111111 11111101 11111101 01111101 11111101 11110101 11110101 10111111 11111011 11111101 1110101 11111111 11011101 01010111 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 807 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 609 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 166 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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