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
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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Frances Darwin Cornford

Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin) was an English poet; because of the similarity of her first name, her father's and her husband's, she was known to her family before her marriage as "FCD" and after her marriage as "FCC" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "FMC". Her father Sir Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, yet another 'Francis', was known to their family as "Frank", or as "Uncle Frank". more…

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