Analysis of Noble men

Leo Long 1986 (Durban)



What say you noble men of old?
William with your pen shaking
Like the Speare of a savage?
Spilling your mind across the pages
Which Robert in all his haste Burns

And you lonely Oscar?
Having passed Eugene in the corn Field
And Rupert by the trickling Brooke,
Only to lose yourself in the Wilde

What say you of Edgar Lee,
Who left his Masters
And with Swift Jonathan
Crossed the Gray Moore to the Thomas’s

And when said Thomas stood
With handman, noose and Hood
“What a pity”, as Robert said
Laying them in their winters Graves


Scheme XXXAX XXXX XXXA BBXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 1011110 1011010 101101010 11001111 011010 101010011 01010101 101101001 1111101 11110 011100 1011101 011101 11101 10101101 10101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 518
Words 98
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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