Analysis of Valuation
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
THE old Squire said, as he stood by his gate,
And his neighbor, the Deacon, went by,
'In spite of my bank stock and real estate,
You are better off, Deacon, than I.
'We're both growing old, and the end's drawing near,
You have less of this world to resign,
But in Heaven's appraisal your assets, I fear,
Will reckon up greater than mine.
'They say I am rich, but I'm feeling so poor,
I wish I could swap with you even
The pounds I have lived for and laid up in store
For the shillings and pence you have given.'
'Well, Squire,' said the Deacon, with shrewd
common sense,
While his eye had a twinkle of fun,
'Let your pounds take the way of my shillings
and pence,
And the thing can be easily done!'
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XXXE XFEXFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111111 011001011 0111110101 111011011 11101001101 111111101 10100101111 11011011 11111111011 111111110 01111101101 1010011110 11101011 101 111101011 1111011110 01 001111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 689 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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