Analysis of Borrow'd Plumes
Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833 – 1870
[A Preface and a Piracy]
OF borrow’d plumes I take the sin,
My extracts will apply
To some few silly songs which in
These pages scatter’d lie.
The words are Edgar Allan Poe’s,
As any man may see,
But what a Poe-t wrote in prose,
Shall make blank verse for me.
| Scheme | A BCBC AAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01000100 1111101 11101 11110110 11011 01110101 110111 11011101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 274 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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