Analysis of Why Should I Care for the Men of Thames
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
Why should I care for the men of thames
Or the cheating waves of charter'd streams
Or shrink at the little blasts of fear
That the hireling blows into my ear
Tho born on the cheating banks of Thames
Tho his waters bathed my infant limbs
The Ohio shall wash his stains from me
I was born a slave but I go to be free.
| Scheme | AXXX AXBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110111 101011101 111010111 10110111 111010111 111011101 0010111111 11101111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 321 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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