Analysis of Let Me Sing Of What I Know
William Allingham 1824 (Ballyshannon) – 1889 (Hampstead)
A wild west Coast, a little Town,
Where little Folk go up and down,
Tides flow and winds blow:
Night and Tempest and the Sea,
Human Will and Human Fate:
What is little, what is great?
Howsoe'er the answer be,
Let me sing of what I know.
Scheme | AABCDDCB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 11011101 11011 1010001 1010101 1110111 10101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 237 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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