Analysis of A Seal.

Oliver Herford 1863 (Sheffield) – 1935



SEE, chil-dren, the Fur-bear-ing Seal;
Ob-serve his mis-di-rect-ed zeal:
He dines with most ab-ste-mi-ous care
On Fish, Ice Water and Fresh Air
A-void-ing cond-i-ments or spice,
For fear his fur should not be nice
And fine and smooth and soft and meet
For Broad-way or for Re-gent Street
And yet some-how I of-ten feel
(Though for the kind Fur-bear-ing Seal
I har-bor a Re-spect Pro-found)


Scheme AABBCCDDAAE
Poetic Form
Metre 11101111 11111111 111111111 11110011 01111111 11111111 01010101 11111111 01111111 11011111 11101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 379
Words 65
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 294
Words per stanza (avg) 65
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford was an American writer, artist and illustrator who has been called "The American Oscar Wilde". more…

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