Analysis of London River
Cicely Fox Smith 1882 (Lymm, Cheshire) – 1954 (Bow, Devon)
Half a score o' sailormen that want to sail once more,
Cruising round the waterside with the Peter at the fore!
Half a score o' sailormen the sea will never drown -
Seven days in open boats a-drifting up and down! -
Out to find another ship and sail from London Town!
Half a score o' sailormen broke and on the rocks,
Linking down Commercial Road, tramping round the Docks,
Half a score o' sailormen, torpedoed twice before,
Once was in the Channel chops, once was off the Nore,
Last was in the open sea five hundred mile from shore!
Half a score o' sailormen that want to sail again -
And her cargo's all aboard her, and it's blowing up for rain!
Half a score o' sailormen that won't come home to tea -
For she's dropping down the river with the Duster flying free -
Down the London River on the road to the open sea!
Scheme | AABBB CCAAA XXDDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111111 101011010101 10111011101 1010101010101 1110101011101 1011110101 101010110101 1011101101 110010111101 1100101110111 10111111101 00110100110111 10111111111 111010101010101 10101010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 812 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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