Analysis of The Melbourne Cup
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
I like the riders
Clad in rose and blue;
Their colours glitter
And their horses too.
Swift go the riders
On incarnate speed.
My thought can scarcely
Follow where they lead.
Delicate, strong, long
Lines of colour flow,
And all the people
Tremble as they go.
| Scheme | ABCBADEFGHIH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 10101 1110 01101 11010 10101 11110 10111 10011 1111 01010 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 264 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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