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
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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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on January 11, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Neil McLeod

Born in Oxford, raised in Kenya, past winner of Los Slamgeles Poetry Slam and author of abitingchance.blogspot.comand "The First Thanksgiving".Doctor McLeod is a performing poet who has recited at Highland Games, dinners and Burns Nights for the last 36 years. He is happily married, lives and works in Los Angeles,has three children, and practices as a dentist on Sunset Boulevard:http://www.drneilmcleod.com/He can be contacted by e-mail at drneilmcleod@yahoo.com and will willingly entertain requests to share his work with permission. more…

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