Analysis of The Man In The South
The man in the North,
He pledged his troth,
To find a Richmond barber,
But the man in the South,
He mashed his mouth
At a place they call Cold Harbor.
| Scheme | ABCDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001 1111 1101010 101001 1111 10111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 153 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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