Analysis of The Journeyman

Ralph Hodgson 1871 (Darlington) – 1962



Not baser than his own homekeeping kind
Whose journeyman he is -
Blind sons and breastless daughters of the blind
Whose darkness pardons his, -
About the world, while all the world approves,
The pimp of Fashion steals,
With all the angels mourning their dead loves
Behind his bloody heels.
It my be late when Nature cries Enough!
As one day cry she will,
And man may have the wit to put her off
With shifts a season still;
But man may find the pinch importunate
And fall to blaming men -
Blind sires and breastless mothers of his fate,
It may be late and may be very late,
Too late for blaming then.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11011111 11011 110110101 110101 0101110101 011101 1101010111 011101 1111110101 111111 0111011101 110101 1111011 011101 110110111 1111011101 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 607
Words 116
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 472
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson, Order of the Rising Sun,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. more…

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