Analysis of Old Farmer Jack
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Old farmer Jack gazed on his wheat,
And feared the frost would nip it.
Said he, "it's nearly seven feet -
I must begin to strip 'it.
He stripped it with a stripper and
He bagged it with a bagger;
The bags were all so lumpy that
They made the bumper stagger.
The lumper staggered up the stack
Where he was told to stack it;
And Jack was paid and put the cash
Inside his linen jacket.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC XBXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11011111 0101111 11110101 1101111 11110100 111101 01011101 1101010 01010101 1111111 01110101 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 391 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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