Imitated from Wordsworth

Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894



He brought a team from Inversnaid
To play our Third Fifteen,
A man whom none of us had played
And very few had seen.

He weighed not less than eighteen stone,
And to a practised eye
He seemed as little fit to run
As he was fit to fly.

He looked so clumsy and so slow,
And made so little fuss;
But he got in behind -- and oh,
The difference to us!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB XCXC DEDE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 351
Words 75
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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