Analysis of Honor Among Scamps
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
We are the smirched. Queen Honor is the spotless.
We slept thro' wars where Honor could not sleep.
We were faint-hearted. Honor was full-valiant.
We kept a silence Honor could not keep.
Yet this late day we make a song to praise her.
We, codeless, will yet vindicate her code.
She who was mighty, walks with us, the beggars.
The merchants drive her out upon the road.
She makes a throne of sod beside our campfire.
We give the maiden-queen our rags and tears.
A battered, rascal guard have rallied round her,
To keep her safe until the better years.
| Scheme | XAXA BCXC BXBX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11011101010 1111110111 10110101110 1101010111 11111101110 111110001 11110111010 0101010101 110111011010 11010110101 01010111010 1101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 557 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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