Analysis of Good King Arthur
Leonard Leslie Brooke 1862 – 1940
Good King Arthur.
When good king Arthur ruled this land,
He was a goodly king;
He stole three pecks of barley-meal,
To make a bag-pudding.
A bag-pudding the king did make,
And stuffed it well with plums:
And in it put great lumps of fat,
As big as my two thumbs.
The king and queen did eat thereof,
And noblemen beside;
And what they could not eat that night,
The queen next morning fried.
Scheme | X XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 11110111 110101 11111101 110110 01100111 011111 00111111 111111 0101111 0101 01111111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 420 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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