Analysis of The Woodford Song
Shamancroc 1949 (Cleethorpes)
The Woodford Song Is six days long;
But who the hell is counting?
The punters pay;
The artists play;
The stallies slave away the day.
But any job will do for me,
The Vollies get it all for free.
As each day dawns
The pleasure grows
And where it leads us
No-one knows.
Sitting here, behind the scenes
We have the ones who make the Dreams.
The vollies who make up the crews,
(The ones who, rarely, make the news).
We make things right,
We grind the gears,
We are the lucky
VOLUNTEERS.
Croc ,,,, 2022
| Scheme | XXAAABBXCXCXXDDXEBE X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) |
| Metre | 01011111 1101110 011 0101 0110101 11011111 0111111 1111 0101 01111 111 1010101 11011101 0111101 01110101 1111 1101 11010 01 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 498 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
About this poem
This is a poem written to acknowledge the contributions made by volunteers to the Woodford Folk Festival. The festival depends on approximately 2400 willing vollies, many of who are returnees.
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Written on December 16, 2022
Submitted by Croc on January 03, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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