Analysis of I'm Leaving
Neil McLeod 1947 (Oxford)
I'm excited 'cause I'm leaving,
I'm going away
To a new land over the sea.
To where the people may be different
And the culture too,
Well that's what I'm going to see.
The silver lady waits to do her duty
Soon she'll surge into the sky
To a new world across the ocean
And so to England goodbye.
I won't forget you England, in the half sun
With the droplets of rain for the flowers
I won't forget the Lady who I know thinks of me
Who will sit in a dream for hours.
I'm excited 'cause I'm leaving,
I'm going away
To a new land over the sea
Where the places and the people and the culture are different,
And that's what's exciting me.
Scheme | ABCdxc cefe fgcg ABCdc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110 11001 10111001 1101011100 00101 11111011 01010111010 1110101 101101010 011101 11011100011 1010111010 1101010111111 111001110 10101110 11001 10111001 1010001000101100 0110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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