Analysis of Straw in the Street
Straw in the street where I pass to-day
Dulls the sound of the wheels and feet.
'Tis for a failing life they lay
Straw in the street.
Here, where the pulses of London beat,
Someone strives with the Presence grey;
Ah, is it victory or defeat?
The hurrying people go their way,
Pause and jostle and pass and greet;
For life, for death, are they treading, say
Straw in the street?
Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
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Poetic Form | Roundel |
Metre | 100111111 10110101 11010111 1001 110101101 1110101 111100101 010010111 10100101 111111101 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 375 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 26, 2023
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