Analysis of Tokens

William Barnes 1801 (Bagber) – 1886



Green mwold on zummer bars do show
That they've a-dripped in winter wet;
The hoof-worn ring o' groun' below
The tree do tell o' storms or het;
The trees in rank along a ledge
Do show where woonce did bloom a hedge;
An' where the vurrow-marks do stripe
The down the wheat woonce rustled ripe.
Each mark ov things a-gone vrom view—
To eyezight's woone, to soulzight two.

The grass agean the mwoldren door
'S a token sad o' vo'k a-gone,
An' where the house, bwoth wall an' vloor,
'S a-lost, the well mid linger on.
What tokens, then, could Meary gi'e
That she a-lived, an' lived vor me,
But things a-done vor thought an' view?
Good things that nwone agean can do,
An' every work her love ha' wrought,
To eyezight's woone, but two to thought.


Scheme ABABCCDDEE FXFXCXEEGG
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1111111 11010101 01111101 01111111 01010101 11111101 1101111 0101111 11110111 111111 011011 1010111101 11011111 101011101 1101111 11011111 11011111 1111111 110010111 1111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 730
Words 139
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 10
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 278
Words per stanza (avg) 69
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Barnes

William Barnes, Barne, Barneis or Berners, of Thoby, Essex, was an English politician. more…

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