Analysis of A Snake Yarn
William Thomas Goodge 1862 – 1909
"You talk of snakes," said Jack the Rat,
"But blow me, one hot summer,
I seen a thing that knocked me flat -
Fourteen foot long or more than that,
It was a reg'lar hummer!
Lay right along a sort of bog,
Just like a log!
"The ugly thing was lyin' there
And not a sign o' movin',
Give any man a nasty scare;
Seen nothin' like it anywhere
Since I first started drovin'.
And yet it didn't scare my dog.
Looked like a log!
"I had to cross that bog, yer see,
And bluey I was humpin';
But wonderin' what that thing could be
A-lyin' there in front o' me
I didn't feel like jumpin'.
Yet, though I shivered like a frog,
It seemed a log!
"I takes a leap and lands right on
The back of that there whopper!"
He stopped. We waited. Then Big Mac
Remarked: "Well, then, what happened, Jack?"
"Not much," said Jack, and drained his grog.
"It was a log!"
Scheme | ABAABCD EFEEFDD GFGGFCD FBHHCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 1111110 11011111 11111111 1101110 11010111 1101 0101111 010111 11010101 1101110 111101 01110111 1101 11111111 010111 1111111 0110111 110111 11110101 1101 11010111 0111110 11110111 01111101 11110111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 868 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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