Analysis of The Poor Man's Pig
Edmund Blunden 1896 (London) – 1974 (Long Melford)
Already fallen plum-bloom stars the green
And apple-boughs as knarred as old toads' backs
Wear their small roses ere a rose is seen;
The building thrush watches old Job who stacks
The bright-peeled osiers on the sunny fence,
The pent sow grunts to hear him stumping by,
And tries to push the bolt and scamper thence,
But her ringed snout still keeps her to the sty.
Then out he lets her run; away she snorts
In bundling gallop for the cottage door,
With hungry hubbub begging crusts and orts,
Then like the whirlwind bumping round once more;
Nuzzling the dog, making the pullets run,
And sulky as a child when her play's done.
Scheme | ABABCDCD XEBEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011101 0101111111 1111010111 0101101111 011110101 0111111101 0111010101 1011110101 1111010111 01001010101 1101010101 110110111 10110011 011011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 249 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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