Analysis of Antigonish
William Hughes Mearns 1875 – 1965
As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there!
He wasn't there again today,
Oh how I wish he'd go away!
When I came home last night at three,
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall,
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door...
Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn't there,
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11011101 11010101 11111101 11111111 01110111 11110101 11011111 1011011111101 101101011101 11110101 01011101 11010101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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