Analysis of Baloo Loo For Jenny

Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)



Sing baloo loo for Jenny
And where is she gone?
Away to spy her mother's land,
Riding all alone.

To the rich towns of Scotland,
The woods and the streams,
High upon a Spanish horse
Saddled for her dreams.

By Oxford and by Chester,
To Berwick-on-the-Tweed,
Then once across the borderland
She shall find no need.

A loaf for her at Stirling,
A scone at Carlisle,
Honeyed cakes at Edinbro'--
That shall make her smile.

At Aberdeen clear cider,
Mead for her at Nairn,
A cup of wine at John o' Groats--
That shall please my bairn.

Sing baloo loo for Jenny,
Mother will be fain
To see her little truant child
Riding home again.


Scheme Axbx xcxc debe xfdf dxca Axxx
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 111110 01111 01110101 10101 1011110 01001 1010101 10101 1100110 110101 110101 11111 0110110 0111 1111 11101 110110 11011 01111111 11111 111110 10111 11010101 10101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 606
Words 117
Sentences 8
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, novelist and soldier in World War One. more…

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