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 |
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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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