Analysis of The Song of Quoodle
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 (Kensington, London) – 1936 (Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)
They haven't got no noses,
The fallen sons of Eve;
Even the smell of roses
Is not what they supposes;
But more than mind discloses
And more than men believe.
They haven't got no noses,
They cannot even tell
When door and darkness closes
The park a Jew encloses,
Where even the law of Moses
Will let you steal a smell.
The brilliant smell of water,
The brave smell of a stone,
The smell of dew and thunder,
The old bones buried under,
Are things in which they blunder
And err, if left alone.
The wind from winter forests,
The scent of scentless flowers,
The breath of brides' adorning,
The smell of snare and warning,
The smell of Sunday morning,
God gave to us for ours
And Quoodle here discloses
All things that Quoodle can,
They haven't got no noses,
They haven't got no noses,
And goodness only knowses
The Noselessness of Man.
Scheme | Abaaab Acaaxc deddde xfgggf ahAAah |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 1101110 010111 1001110 1111010 1111010 011101 1101110 110101 1101010 01011 11001110 111101 0101110 011101 0111010 0111010 1101110 011101 0111010 011110 0111010 0111010 011110 1111110 011010 11111 1101110 1101110 010101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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