Analysis of Touchstone On A Bus
Alfred Noyes 1880 (Wolverhampton) – 1958 (Isle of Wight)
Last night I rode with Touchstone on a bus
From Ludgate Hill to World's End. It was he!
Despite the broadcloth and the bowler hat,
I knew him, Touchstone, the wild flower of folly,
The whetstone of his age, the scourge of kings,
The madcap morning star of elfin-land,
Who used to wrap his legs around his neck
For warmth on winter nights. He had slipped back,
To see what men were doing in a world
That should be wiser. He had watched a play,
Read several books, heard men discourse of art
And life; and he sat bubbling like a spring
In Arden. Never did blackbird, drenched with may,
Chuckle as Touchstone chuckled on that ride.
_Lord, what a world! Lord, what a mad, mad world!_
Then, to the jolt and jingle of the engine,
He burst into this bunch of madcap rhymes:--
Scheme | ABCBDEFGHIJKILCMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111101 111111111 010100101 11110110110 011110111 011011101 1111110111 1111011111 1111010001 1111011101 1101111011 01011100101 01010110111 101110111 1101110111 11010101010 110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 594 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 144 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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