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
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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Leonard Leslie Brooke

Leonard Leslie Brooke was a British artist and writer. more…

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