Analysis of A Wool Fleet Chorus
Cicely Fox Smith 1882 (Lymm, Cheshire) – 1954 (Bow, Devon)
Fare you well, you Sydney girls, time for us to go!
The Peter's at the fore truck, and five thousand bales below,
We've a dozen shellbacks forrard, and a skipper hard as nails,
And we're bound for old England and the January sales!
Soon we'll leave the Snares behind, blusterous and strong
Up'll come the Westerlies and hustle her along:
Running like a driven deer through the thundering gales,
Racing under royals for the January Sales!
Old Cape Stiff 'll drop astern, like a blinking dream,
Sleet and snow and crashing seas, fog and ice'll seem,
Snoring through the Tropics with a Trade that never fails,
Nor'ard on a bowline for the January sales!
Then the girls'll get her towrope, and she'll smell the land again,
And she'll reel the knots off steady as a blessed railway train,
Till seventy days from Sydney Heads the Lizard light she hails -
First to the Channel for the January sales!
Scheme | AABB CCBB DDBB XXBB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 111110111111 01010110110101 1010110010111 0111110001001 1110101101 110100010001 1010101101001 101010101001 11111110101 10101011011 1010101011101 111010101001 1011010110101 0110111010111 110011101010111 11010101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 885 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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