Analysis of Henry
Mary and I were twenty-two
When we were wed;
A well-matched pair, right smart to view
The town's folk said.
For twenty years I have been true
To nuptial bed.
But oh alas! The march of time,
Life's wear and tear!
Now I am in my lusty prime
With pep to spare,
While she looks ten more years than I'm,
With greying hair.
'Twas on our trip dear friends among,
To New Orleans,
A stranger's silly trip of tongue
Kiboshed my dreams:
I heard her say: 'How very young
His mother seems.'
Child-bearing gets a woman down,
And six had she;
Yet now somehow I feel a clown
When she's with me;
When cuties smile one cannot frown,
You must agree.
How often I have heard it said:
'For happy fate,
In age a girl ten years ahead
Should choose her mate.'
Now twenty years to Mary wed
I know too late.
Scheme | ABABAB CDCDCD EXEFEF GHGHGH BIBIBI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 10010101 1101 01111111 0111 11011111 1101 11010111 1101 11101101 1111 11111111 1101 111011101 11100 01010111 111 11011101 1101 11010101 0111 1111101 1111 1111101 1101 11011111 1101 01011101 1101 11011101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 909 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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