Analysis of Fisherman's Chant, The
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand 1836 ( London, ) – 1917 (Ramsgate, )
Oh, the fisherman is a happy wight!
He dibbles by day, and he sniggles by night.
He trolls for fish, and he trolls his lay,
He sniggles by night, and he dibbles by day.
Oh, who so merry as he!
On the river or the sea!
Sniggling,
Wriggling
Eels, and higgling
Over the price
Of a nice
Slice
Of fish, twice
As much as it ought to be.
Oh, the fisherman is a happy man!
He dibbles, and sniggles, and fills his can!
With a sharpened hook, and a sharper eye,
He sniggles and dibbles for what comes by,
Oh, who so merry as he!
On the river or the sea!
Dibbling
Nibbling
Chub, and quibbling
Over the price
Of a nice
Slice
Of fish, twice
As much as it ought to be.
Scheme | aabbCCdddEEEEC ffggCCdddEEEEC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010101 111101111 111101111 111101111 1111011 1010101 1 1 101 1001 101 1 111 1111111 101010101 11010111 1010100101 11011111 1111011 1010101 1 100 10100 1001 101 1 111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 14 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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