Analysis of Some Other Somebody
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant 1864 (Bridgwater, Somerset) – 1902 (Pretoria)
Somebody's horse has finished his feed,
Somebody's saddle is on;
But never a nigger the tracks can read,
Or know where Somebody's gone.
Over the rails and up the creek,
As soon as the sun goes down:
How is it every night this week
That Somebody's off to town?
Grass is dewy, and overhead
Evening stars are bright;
And startled wallabies hear the tread
Of galloping hoofs at night.
Through the scrub and over the plain
Somebody's galloping fast;
Never a pull on the bridle rein
Till the town lights show at last.
Somebody's horse has whips o' work -
Whips o' work of late -
Since Somebody's brown was seen in town
Tied to Somebody's gate.
But the wherefore why Somebody rides,
And the track that the brown horse goes,
Only his rider (and one besides:
Some other Somebody) knows!
Scheme | XXAX BCBC ADAD EFEF XGCG HIHI |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 10111011 101011 1100100111 111101 10010101 1110111 111100111 110111 11100101 10111 010100101 1100111 10101001 101001 100110101 1011111 1011111 11111 11011101 11101 1011101 00110111 101100101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 798 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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