Analysis of Pipe Song
Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
Care is all stuff:--
Puff! Puff!
To puff is enough:--
Puff! Puff
More musky than snuff,
And warm is a puff:--
Puff! Puff
Here we sit mid our puffs,
Like old lords in their ruffs,
Snug as bears in their muffs:--
Puff! Puff
Then puff, puff, puff,
For care is all stuff,
Puffed off in a puff--
Puff! Puff!
| Scheme | aAaAaaAbbbAaaaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (53%) |
| Metre | 1111 11 11101 11 11011 01101 11 1111101 111011 111011 11 1111 11111 11001 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 296 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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