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
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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Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley was accepted to UCLA in 1969 with a major in mathematics. more…

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