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 |
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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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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 07, 2023
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