Analysis of A Whale.
Oliver Herford 1863 (Sheffield) – 1935
THE con-sci-en-tious art-ist tries
On-ly to draw what meets his eyes.
This is the Whale; he seems to be
A spout of wa-ter in the sea.
Now, Hux-ley from one bone could make
An un-known beast; so if I take
This spout of wa-ter, and from thence
Con-struct a Whale by in-fer-ence,
A Whale, I ven-ture to as-sert,
Must be an an-i-mat-ed squirt!
Thus, chil-dren, we the truth may sift
By use of Log-ic's Price-less Gift.
| Scheme | AABBCCDAEEEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111111 11111111 11011111 01111001 11111111 11111111 11111011 11011011 01111111 11111111 11110111 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 403 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 305 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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