Analysis of London Types: Sandwich-Man
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
An ill March noon; the flagstones gray with dust;
An all-round east wind volleying straws and grit;
St. Martin's Steps, where every venomous gust
Lingers to buffet, or sneap, the passing cit;
And in the gutter, squelching a rotten boot,
Draped in a wrap that, modish ten-year syne,
Partners, obscene with sweat and grease and soot,
A horrible hat, that once was just as fine;
The drunkard's mouth a-wash for something drinkable,
The drunkard's eye alert for causal toppers,
The drunkard's neck stooped to a lot scarce thinkable,
A living crawling blazoning of Hot-Coppers,
He trails his mildews towards a Kingdom-Come
Compact of sausage-and-mash and two-o'rum!
Scheme | ABAACDEDFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101111 111111101 110111001001 10110110101 00010100101 100111111 1001110101 01001111111 01101110100 0110111010 011110111 0101011110 1111010101 10110010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 668 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 521 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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