Analysis of To the Rev. Canon Fisher
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant 1864 (Bridgwater, Somerset) – 1902 (Pretoria)
To the Rev. Canon Fisher
Pretoria
The night before we're shot
We shot the Boers who killed and mutilated
our friend (the best mate I had on Earth)
Harry Harbord Morant
Peter Joseph Handcock
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011010 0100 010111 1101110100 1010111111 10110 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 191 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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