Analysis of Grain Of Salt, A
Wallace Irwin 1875 – 1959
Of all the wimming doubly blest
The sailor's wife's the happiest,
For all she does is stay to home
And knit and darn, and let 'im roam.
Of all the husbands on the earth
The sailor has the finest berth,
For in 'is cabin he can sit
And sail and sail, and let 'er knit.
| Scheme | XXAA BBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1101101 01010100 11111111 01010111 11010101 01010101 10110111 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 287 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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