Analysis of Ballad Of The Londoner

James Elroy Flecker 1884 (London) – 1915



Evening falls on the smoky walls,
And the railings drip with rain,
And I will cross the old river
To see my girl again.

The great and solemn-gliding tram,
Love's still-mysterious car,
Has many a light of gold and white,
And a single dark red star.

I know a garden in a street
Which no one ever knew;
I know a rose beyond the Thames,
Where flowers are pale and few.


Scheme XXXX XAXA XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 10110101 0010111 01110110 111101 01010101 1101001 110011101 0010111 11010001 111101 11010101 1101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 359
Words 73
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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James Elroy Flecker

James Elroy Flecker was an English poet, novelist and playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets. more…

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