Analysis of My Education
James Kenneth Stephen 1859 (London) – 1892
At school I sometimes read a book,
And learned a lot of lessons;
Some small amount of pains I took,
And showed much acquiescence
In what my masters said, good men!
Yet after all I quite
Forgot the most of it: but then
I learned to write.
At Lincoln's Inn I'd read a brief,
Abstract a title, study
Great paper-piles, beyond belief
Inelegant and muddy:
The whole of these as time went by
I soon forgot: indeed
I tried to: yes: but by and by
I learned to read.
By help of Latin, Greek and Law
I now can write and read too:
Then perish each forgotten saw,
Each fact I do not need too:
But still whichever way I turn
At one sad task I stick:
I fear that I shall never learn
Arithmetic.
Scheme | AXAXBCBC DEDEFXFX GHGHIJIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101101 0101110 11011111 011010 01110111 110111 01011111 1111 11011101 0101010 11010101 1010 01111111 110101 11111101 1111 11110101 1111011 11010101 1111111 11010111 111111 11111101 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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