Analysis of Dirty Jim
Jane Taylor 1783 (London) – 1824
THERE was one little Jim,
'Tis reported of him,
And must be to his lasting disgrace,
That he never was seen
With hands at all clean,
Nor yet ever clean was his face. . . .
His friends were much hurt
To see so much dirt,
And often they made him quite clean;
But all was in vain,
He got dirty again,
And not at all fit to be seen.
It gave him no pain
To hear them complain,
Nor his own dirty clothes to survey:
His indolent mind
No pleasure could find
In tidy and wholesome array.
The idle and bad,
Like this little lad,
May love dirty ways, to be sure;
But good boys are seen
To be decent and clean,
Although they are ever so poor.
Scheme | AABCCB DDCEXC EEFGGF HHXCCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 11011 011111001 111011 11111 11101111 11011 11111 01011111 11101 111001 01111111 11111 11101 111101101 11001 11011 01001001 01001 11101 11101111 11111 111001 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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