Analysis of October on the Sheep Range
Arthur Chapman 1873 (Rockford) – 1935 (New York City)
There ain't no leaves to turn to gold-
There ain't a tree in sight-
In other ways the herder's told
October's come, all right.
Jest like ten thousand souls, all lost,
The wind howls-ain't it nice!-
The water-hole is froze acrost
With crinkly-crackly ice.
The sheep bed down before the sun
Has hit the rim of hills;
The prairie wolves are on the run
To make their nightly kills.
But kyards are sayin', 'Solitaire,'
The bacon's fryin' prime;
The old sheep wagon's free from care
In late October time.
Scheme | ABAB XCAC DEDE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111 110101 0101011 010111 11110111 011111 0101111 1111 01110101 110111 01011101 111101 11111 01011 0111111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 491 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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