Analysis of Welcome Home
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
Unaware of my crime
they stood me in the dock.
I was sentenced to life....
without her.
Strange trial.
No judge.
No jury.
I wonder who my visitors will be.
| Scheme | XX XX XXA A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111 111001 111011 010 110 11 110 1101110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 148 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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