Analysis of The Sailor
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
I'd like to be a sailor - a sailor bold and bluff
Calling out, 'Ship ahoy!' in manly tones and gruff.
I'd learn to box the compass, and to reef and tack and luff;
I'd sniff and snifff the briny breeze and never get enough.
Perhaps I'd chew tobacco, or an old black pipe I'd puff,
But I wouldn't be a sailor if ...
The sea was very rough.
Would you?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010010101 101101010101 11110100110101 1101011010101 0111011111111 111010101 011101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 351 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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