Analysis of Gifts
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
Give a man a horse he can ride,
Give a man a boat he can sail;
And his rank and wealth, his strength and health,
On sea nor shore shall fail.
Give a man a pipe he can smoke,
Give a man a book he can read:
And his home is bright with a calm delight,
Though the room be poor indeed.
Give a man a girl he can love,
As I, O my love, love thee;
And his heart is great with the pulse of Fate,
At home, on land, on sea.
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 10101111 10101111 011011101 111111 10101111 10101111 0111110101 1011101 10101111 1111111 0111110111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 417 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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