Analysis of Rhyme For A Phonetician
Frances Darwin Cornford 1886 (Cambridge) – 1960 (Cambridge)
Brave English language, you are strong as trees,
Yet intricate and stately. Thus one sees
Through branches clear-embroidered stars. You please
Our sense as damask roses on the breeze,
And barns that smell of hay, and bread-and-cheese.
Rustic yet Roman, yours are dignities
Sonorous as the seas sound. On my knees
I would give thanks for all your words. Yet these
Our legacy and our delight he'd squeeze
And nip and dock and drill, to write with ease
Kornershul memoz faw the Pawchoogeese.
Scheme | AAAAAAAAAAA |
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Poetic Form | Monorhyme |
Metre | 1101011111 1100010111 1101010111 10111010101 0111110101 10110111 1001011111 1111111111 101000100111 0101011111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 390 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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