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.
Scheme | ABABCDEDFGHGAIJJI |
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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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