Analysis of On Circuit.

Horace Smith 1836 (London) – 1922



Two neighbours, fighting for a yard of land;
Two witnesses, who lie on either hand;
Two lawyers, issuing many writs and pleas;
Two clerks, in a dark passage counting fees;
Two counsel, calling one another names;
Two courts, where lawyers play their little games;
Two weeks at Leeds, which wear the soul away;
Two judges getting limper every day;
Two bailiffs of the court with aspect sour--
So runs the round of life from hour to hour.


Scheme AABBCCDDEE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 111010111 1100111101 11010010101 1100110101 1101010101 1111011101 1111110101 1101011001 1101011110 110111110110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 426
Words 77
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 341
Words per stanza (avg) 77
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Horace Smith

Horace Smith was an English poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnet-writing competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was of him that Shelley said: "Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous." more…

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