Analysis of The Golf Walk
Ellis Parker Butler 1869 (Muscatine) – 1937 (Williamsville)
Behold, my child, this touching scene,
The golfer on the golfing-green;
Pray mark his legs’ uncanny swing,
The golf-walk is a gruesome thing!
See how his arms and shoulders ride
Above his legs in haughty pride,
While over bunker, hill and lawn
His feet, relentless, drag him on.
And does the man walk always so?
Nay! nay I my child, and eke, oh! no!
It is a gait he only knows
When he has on his golfing clothes.
Blame not the man for that strange stride
He could not help it if he tried;
It is his timid feet that try
From his obstreperous clothes to fly.
Scheme | AABB CCXX DDXX CCEE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 01111101 01010101 11110101 01110101 11110101 01110101 11010101 11010111 0101111 111110111 11011101 11111101 11011111 11111111 11110111 110100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 551 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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