Analysis of His Bit
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
GALLANTLY swung the old carpenter up to his door,
Drums and fifes in his tread,
But softly he crossed the braided mats on the floor,
Gently he stroked her head.
'More folks were there at the station than ever I knew,
Bidding the lad good-by.
Here's a daisy he picked at the platform's edge for you,
Kissing it on the sly.
'He'll do his part, our boy, on the fighting line';
— She caught the flower to her lips—
'And you with your knitting, and I have signed up for mine,
Work on the wooden ships.
'Oh, but it's hard to be old when the bugles call,
Yet I hav'n't lost my chance.
I'll be in the shipyard the day the first trees fall,
Before the boy's in France.'
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 1001011001111 101011 110110101101 101101 1101101011011 100111 101011101111 101101 111110110101 11010101 0111100111111 110101 111111110101 111111 11001010111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 496 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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