Analysis of Andrew Jones
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
I hate that Andrew Jones; he'll breed
His children up to waste and pillage.
I wish the press-gang or the drum
With its tantara sound would come,
And sweep him from the village!
I said not this, because he loves
Through the long day to swear and tipple;
But for the poor dear sake of one
To whom a foul deed he had done,
A friendless man, a travelling cripple!
For this poor crawling helpless wretch,
Some horseman who was passing by,
A penny on the ground had thrown;
But the poor cripple was alone
And could not stoop--no help was nigh.
Inch-thick the dust lay on the ground
For it had long been droughty weather;
So with his staff the cripple wrought
Among the dust till he had brought
The half-pennies together.
It chanced that Andrew passed that way
Just at the time; and there he found
The cripple in the mid-day heat
Standing alone, and at his feet
He saw the penny on the ground.
He stopped and took the penny up:
And when the cripple nearer drew,
Quoth Andrew, "Under half-a-crown,
What a man finds is all his own,
And so, my Friend, good-day to you."
And 'hence' I said, that Andrew's boys
Will all be trained to waste and pillage;
And wished the press-gang, or the drum
With its tantara sound, would come
And sweep him from the village.
Scheme | xabBC xdeed xfggf hijji xhkkh xlxgl xabBC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 110111010 11011101 111111 0111010 11110111 101111010 11011111 11011111 011010010 11110101 11011101 01010111 10110101 01111111 11011101 11111110 11110101 01011111 0110010 11110111 11010111 01000111 10010111 11010101 11010101 01010101 11010101 10111111 01111111 0111111 111111010 01011101 111111 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,254 |
Words | 236 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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