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 |
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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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