Analysis of Bobbie
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Gin you're gangin' doon the city
Come next Sabbath afternoon,
An' you'll catch a glimpse o' Tartan
An' you'll hear a skirlin' tune;
An' you'll see a crowd o' laddies
Lookin' verra dour an' staid,
Wi' just here an' there a Cairngorn,
An' a wee tiny speck o' plaid;
Dinna think from their expression
They are on some mission sad
For their thoughts are back wi' Bobbie,
Wi' the braw, brave ploughman lad.
Once again they'll see him treadin'
Dreary-eyed behind the plough,
With his thoughts amonsgt the angels
And a brave light on his brow.
Once again they'll see him sparking
By the burnside and the glen,
Wi' another sort of angel
An' a sonsy lass ye ken.
Aye, a thousand sober Scotsmen
On the Sabbath afternoon,
Will be back again with Bobbie
With a graceless, godlike gloom.
But they'll not tell of his tailin's;
He was human, he was young,
But they'll join him in his dreaming,
And the rare brave songs he sung
Singing songs of bonny Scotland,
That will never fade with time:
Noble thoughts of truth and beauty
That is genius put in rhyme
And they'll love him for his dreaming
Aye, and for his failin's, too,
When their thoughts go back to Bobbie,
Sweetest singer Scotland knew
Scheme | ABCBDXBECEAE BFDFGHXHBBAX DIGIXJAJGKAK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 111001 11101110 111011 1110111 111011 1111101 10110111 1111010 1111101 11111110 101111 1011111 1010101 1111010 0011111 10111110 101001 10101110 101111 1010101 101001 11101110 101011 1111111 1110111 11110110 0011111 10111010 1110111 10111010 1110101 01111110 101111 11111110 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,154 |
Words | 215 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 303 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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