Analysis of Indian Boyhood
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
What happened to the boy I was?
Why did he run away?
And leave me old and thinking, like
There'd been no yesterday?
What happened then?
Was I that boy?
Who laughed and swam in the bund*
Is there no going back?
No recompense?
Is there nothing?
No refund?
* bund: an embankment used especially in India to control the flow of water.
| Scheme | XAXAXXBXXXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 111101 01110101 11110 1101 1111 1101001 111101 110 1110 101 110101010010010101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 337 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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