Analysis of Lyman, frederick, and jim
Eugene Field 1850 (St. Louis) – 1895 (Chicago)
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Lyman and Frederick and Jim, one day,
Set out in a great big ship--
Steamed to the ocean adown the bay
Out of a New York slip.
"Where are you going and what is your game?"
The people asked those three.
"Darned if we know; but all the same
Happy as larks are we;
And happier still we're going to be!"
Said Lyman
And Frederick
And Jim.
The people laughed "Aha, oho!
Oho, aha!" laughed they;
And while those three went sailing so
Some pirates steered that way.
The pirates they were laughing, too--
The prospect made them glad;
But by the time the job was through
Each of them pirates, bold and bad,
Had been done out of all he had
By Lyman
And Frederick
And Jim.
Days and weeks and months they sped,
Painting that foreign clime
A beautiful, bright vermilion red--
And having a ---- of a time!
'T was all so gaudy a lark, it seemed
As if it could not be,
And some folks thought it a dream they dreamed
Of sailing that foreign sea,
But I 'll identify you these three--
Lyman
And Frederick
And Jim.
Lyman and Frederick are bankers and sich
And Jim is an editor kind;
The first two named are awfully rich
And Jim ain't far behind!
So keep your eyes open and mind your tricks,
Or you are like to be
In quite as much of a Tartar fix
As the pirates that sailed the sea
And monkeyed with the pardners three,
Lyman
And Frederick
And Jim!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 100100111 1100111 11010101 110111 1111001111 010111 11111101 101111 0100111011 110 010 01 010111 1111 01111101 110111 01010101 010111 11010111 11110101 11111111 110 010 01 1010111 101101 010010101 0100101 1111100111 111111 011110111 1101101 111010111 10 010 01 1001011001 01111001 01111101 011101 1111100111 111111 011110101 10101101 011011 10 010 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,367 |
Words | 267 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12, 12, 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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