Analysis of The Englishman
William Schwenck Gilbert 1836 – 1911
He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he is an Englishman!
For he might have been a Roosian,
A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an!
But in spite of all temptations,
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman!
Hurrah!
For the true-born Englishman!
Scheme | ABCAAADEEAFA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100 1101111 01101110 1111100 1111101 011111 10111 10111010 10111010 1011100 01 1011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 315 |
Words | 59 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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