Analysis of The Milkman
Christopher Morley 1890 (Haverford) – 1957
EARLY in the morning, when the dawn is on the roofs,
You hear his wheels come rolling, you hear his horses hoofs;
You hear the bottles clinking, and then he drives away:
You yawn in bed, turn over, and begin another day!
The old-time dairy maids are dear to every poet's heart-
I'd rather be the dairy man and drive a little cart,
And bustle round the village in the early morning blue,
And hang my reigns upon a hook, as I've seen Casey do.
Scheme | XXAA BBCC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1000101011101 1111110111101 110101011101 11011100010101 011101111100101 11010101010101 01010100010101 01110101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 448 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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