Analysis of The Tickle
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
I like to read confessions
As lengthy as Rousseau's,
With all their slow processions
Of innumerable woes.
I revel in Cellini,
Augustine, Amiel
Dumas's Memoirs so sheeny,
Lies no one else could tell.
I love each peccadillo
Of honest Mr. Pepys,
Confided to his pillow
Before his conscience sleeps.
But I prefer in verses
To hand my life to time:
You may forgive what worse is
For tickle of the rhyme.
Scheme | AAAX BCBC CACX XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1111010 11011 1111010 1010001 1100010 101 1111 111111 1111 110101 0101110 011101 1101010 111111 1101111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 391 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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