Analysis of In Dorset Dear
Fay Inchfawn 1880 (Portishead) – 1978 ( Freshford)
In Dorset Dear they're making hay
In just the old West Country way.
With fork and rake and old-time gear
They make the hay in Dorset Dear.
From early morn till twilight grey
They toss and turn and shake the hay.
And all the countryside is gay
With roses on the fallen may,
For 'tis the hay-time of the year
In Dorset Dear.
The loaded waggons wend their way
Across the pasture-lands, and stay
Beside the hedge where foxgloves peer;
And ricks that shall be fashioned here
Will be the sweetest stuff, they say,
In Dorset Dear!
Scheme | aabbaaaabB aabxaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 01011101 11010111 11010101 1101111 11010101 0101011 11010101 11011101 0101 0101111 01010101 0101111 01111101 11010111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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