Analysis of Speculation
William Schwenck Gilbert 1836 – 1911
Comes a train of little ladies
From scholastic trammels free,
Each a little bit afraid is,
Wondering what the world can be!
Is it but a world of trouble -
Sadness set to song?
Is its beauty but a bubble
Bound to break ere long?
Are its palaces and pleasures
Fantasies that fade?
And the glory of its treasures
Shadow of a shade?
Schoolgirls we, eighteen and under,
From scholastic trammels free,
And we wonder - how we wonder! -
What on earth the world can be!
Scheme | xAxa bcbc dede fAfa |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10111010 101011 10101011 10010111 11101110 10111 11101010 11111 11100010 10011 00101110 1101 1101010 101011 01101110 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 453 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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