Analysis of Davy Jones' Door-Bell
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
A Chant for Boys with Manly Voices
(Every line sung one step deeper than the line preceding)
Any sky-bird sings,
Ring, ring!
Any church-chime rings,
Dong ding!
Any cannon says,
Boom bang!
Any whirlwind says,
Whing whang!
The bell-buoy hums and roars,
Ding dong!
And way down deep,
Where fishes throng,
By Davy Jones' big deep?sea door,
Shaking the ocean's flowery floor,
His door-bell booms
Dong dong,
Dong dong,
Deep, deep down,
Clang boom,
Boom dong.
| Scheme | xa babacdcdxexeffxEExxe |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011111010 100111110101010 10111 11 10111 11 10101 11 1011 11 0110101 11 0111 1101 1101111 100101001 1111 11 11 111 11 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 459 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 20 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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