Analysis of Learning Geography
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
They have a few little hours
To study the world—
Its lovely absence of clouds,
Or the thunderbolts hurled
By hidden powers—
All the soft shapes of the vales
And the trees of the north
They dream of a minute, no longer,
No longer—then forth
Ere the year fails
To cities where carnival glows
Or the furnace is bright.
So is measured or leisured
According as teachers dispose
Their cosmic delight.
Scheme | ABCBADEFEDGHBGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011010 11001 1101011 1011 11010 1011101 001101 111010110 11011 1011 11011001 101011 111011 01011001 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 408 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 316 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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