Analysis of The Poet
Raymond Garfield Dandridge 1882 (Cincinnati, Ohio) – 1930 (Cincinnati, Ohio)
The poet sits and dreams and dreams;
He scans his verse; he probes his themes.
Then turns to stretch or stir about,
Lest, like his thoughts, his strength give out.
Then off to bed, for he must rise
And cord some wood, or tamp some ties,
Or break a field of fertile soil,
Or do some other manual toil.
He dare not live by wage of pen,
Most poorly paid of poor paid men,
With shoes o’er-run, and threadbare clothes,—
And editors among the foes
Who mock his song, deny him bread,
Then sing his praise when he is dead.
| Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE XX FF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 01010101 11111111 11111101 11111111 11111111 01111111 11011101 111101001 11111111 11011111 1111011 01000101 11110111 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 515 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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