Analysis of Romance
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
'Talk of pluck!' pursued the Sailor,
Set at euchre on his elbow,
'I was on the wharf at Charleston,
Just ashore from off the runner.
'It was grey and dirty weather,
And I heard a drum go rolling,
Rub-a-dubbing in the distance,
Awful dour-like and defiant.
'In and out among the cotton,
Mud, and chains, and stores, and anchors,
Tramped a squad of battered scarecrows -
Poor old Dixie's bottom dollar!
'Some had shoes, but all had rifles,
Them that wasn't bald was beardless,
And the drum was rolling Dixie,
And they stepped to it like men, sir!
'Rags and tatters, belts and bayonets,
On they swung, the drum a-rolling,
Mum and sour. It looked like fighting,
And they meant it too, by thunder!'
Scheme | AXBA ACDX BXDA XDXA XCCA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11101010 1110111 11101110 10111010 11101010 01101110 10100010 101010010 00101010 10101010 1011101 1111010 11111110 1110111 00111010 01111111 10101010 11101010 101011110 01111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 682 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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