Analysis of London Types: Mounted Police
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
Army Reserve; a worshipper of Bobs,
With whom he stripped the smock from Candahar;
Neat as his mount, that neatest among cobs;
Whenever pageants pass, or meetings are,
He moves conspicuous, vigilant, severe,
With his Light Cavalry hand and seat and look,
A living type of Order, in whose sphere
Is room for neither Hooligan nor Hook.
For in his shadow, wheresoe'er he ride,
Paces, all eye and hardihood and grip,
The dreaded Crusher, might in his every stride
And right materialized girt at his hip;
And they, that shake to see these twain go by,
Feel that the Tec, that plain-clothes Terror, is nigh.
Scheme | ABABBCBCDEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010111 11110111 1111110011 0101011101 11010010001 11110010101 0101110011 1111010011 1011111 10110101 010101011001 0101001111 0111111111 11011111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 471 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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