Analysis of Upon the Road to Rockabout
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Upon the road to Rockabout
I came upon some sheep -
A large and woolly flock about
As wide as it was deep.
I was about to turn about
To ask the man to tell
Some things I wished to learn about
Both sheep and wool as well,
When I beheld a rouseabout
Who lay upon his back
Beside a little house about
A furlong from the track.
I had a lot to talk about,
And said to him "Good day."
But he got up to walk about,
And so I went away -
Scheme | ABAB ACAC ADAD AAAX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010111 110111 01010101 111111 11011101 110111 11111101 110111 11101 110111 01010101 01101 11011101 011111 11111101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 421 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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