Analysis of Talking (and Singing) of the Nordic Man
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
Behold, my child, the Nordic man,
And be as like him, as you can;
His legs are long, his mind is slow,
His hair is lank and made of tow.
And here we have the Alpine Race:
Oh! What a broad and foolish face!
His skin is of a dirty yellow.
He is a most unpleasant fellow.
The most degraded of them all
Mediterranean we call.
His hair is crisp, and even curls,
And he is saucy with the girls.
Scheme | AABB CCBB DDEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110101 01111111 11111111 11110111 0111011 11010101 111101010 110101010 01010111 0010011 11110101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 391 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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