Analysis of By Parcels Post, A Domestic Idyll
George Robert Sims 1847 (London) – 1922 (City of Westminster)
I sent my love a parcel
In the days when we were young,
Or e'er by care and trouble
Our heart-strings had been wrung.
By parcels post I sent it,
What 'twas I do not know,
In the days when we were courting,
A long time ago.
The spring-time waxed to summer,
Then autumn leaves grew red,
And in the sweet September
My love and I were wed.
But though the Church had blessed us,
My little wife looked glum;
I'd posted her a parcel,
And the parcel hadn't come.
Ah, many moons came after,
And then there was a voice,
A little voice whose music
Would make our hearts rejoice.
And, singing to her baby,
My dear one oft would say,
"I wonder, baby darling,
Will that parcel come to-day?"
The gold had changed to silver
Upon her matron brow;
The years were eight-and-twenty
Since we breathed our marriage vow,
And our grandchildren were playing
Hunt-the-slipper on the floor,
When they saw the postman standing
By our open cottage door.
Then they ran with joy to greet him,
For they knew he'd come at last;
They had heard me tell the story
Very often in the past.
He handed them a parcel,
And they brought it in to show,
'Twas the parcel I had posted
Eight-and-twenty years ago.
Scheme | ABABXCDC EFEFXGAG EHXHIJDJ EKIKDLDL XMIMACXC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 1111010 0011101 11011010 1011111 1101111 111111 00111010 01101 0111110 110111 0001010 110101 1101111 110111 1100010 0010101 1101110 011101 0101110 1110101 0101010 111111 1101010 1110111 0111110 010101 0101010 11110101 01010010 1010101 11101010 11010101 11111111 1111111 11111010 1010001 1101010 0111011 10101110 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,140 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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