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 |
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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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