Analysis of Ye Flags of Picadilly
Arthur Hugh Clough 1819 (Liverpool) – 1861 (Florence)
Ye flags of Piccadilly,
Where I posted up and down,
And wished myself so often
Well away from you and town--
Are the people walking quietly
And steady on their feet,
Cabs and omnibuses plying
Just as usual in the street?
Do the houses look as upright
As of old they used to be,
And does nothing seem affected
By the pitching of the sea?
Through the Green Park iron railings
Do the quick pedestrians pass?
Are the little children playing
Round the plane-tree in the grass?
This squally wild northwester
With which our vessel fights,
Does it merely serve with you to
Carry up some paper kites?
Ye flags of Piccadilly,
Which I hated so, I vow
I could wish with all my heart
You were underneath me now!
Scheme | Abxb acdc xaxa xede xfxf Agxg |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111100 1110101 011110 1011101 101010100 010111 10100010 11100001 10101101 1111111 01101010 1010101 10111010 10101001 10101010 1011001 1111 1110101 11101111 1011101 111100 1110111 1111111 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 701 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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