Analysis of Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle
Robert Browning 1812 (Camberwell) – 1889 (Venice)
Boot, saddle, to horse and away!
Rescue my Castle, before the hot day
Brightens to blue from its silvery gray,
(Chorus)
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
Ride past the suburbs, asleep as you'd say;
Many's the friend there, will listen and pray
"God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay--
(Chorus)
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
Forty miles off, like a roebuck at bay,
Flouts Castle Brancepeth the Roundheads' array:
Who laughs, "Good fellows ere this, by my fay,
(Chorus)
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
Who? My wife Gertrude; that, honest and gay,
Laughs when you talk of surrendering, "Nay!
I've better counsellors; what counsel they?
(Chorus)
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
Scheme | AaaBAaaaBAaaaBA aaaBA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 11011001 1011001011 1011111001 10 11011001 1101001111 101111001 111111101 10 11011001 101110111 11010101 1111011111 10 11011001 1111011001 1111101001 1101001101 10 11011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 761 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 259 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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