Analysis of Tower Of Babel
Cicely Fox Smith 1882 (Lymm, Cheshire) – 1954 (Bow, Devon)
Is the name on the label,
Reckon it ought to be
Tower of Babel
,
For there ain't a lingo
That's spoke or swore in
From San Domingo
To Tuti-
cor
-in,
From the Pole or near it
To Pernambuker
But what you'll 'ear it
On board this 'ooker.
And I give you my word, in our port watch
There's English and Irish and Welsh and Scotch,
A Finn, a Swede and a Portuguee,
A Frenchy, a Bim and a heathen Chinee,
And a son of a Dutch, son of a Greek,
Son of a nigger from Martinique.
| Scheme | AX A BCBDEC DEDE FFBCGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (45%) Etheree (40%) |
| Metre | 1011010 101111 10110 1 111010 11110 11010 11 1 0 101111 11 11111 1111 01111101011 1100100101 0101001 010100101 0011011101 110101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 467 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 6, 4, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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