Analysis of The Watchman
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
'Watchman, what of the night?'
'The stars are out in the sky;
And the merry round moon will be rising soon,
For us to go sailing by.'
'Watchman, what of the night?'
'The tide flows in from the sea;
There's water to float a little cockboat
Will carry such fishers as we.'
'Watchman, what of the night?'
'The night is a fruitful time;
When to many a pair are born children fair,
To be christened at morning chime.'
Scheme | Abxb Acac Adxd |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101101 0111001 00101111101 1111101 101101 0110101 110110101 11011011 101101 0110101 11100111101 11101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 413 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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