Analysis of Cut price numismatics
CUT PRICE NUMISMATICS
Last Week I bought a box of coins
A proper pot-pourri
Lira, francs and drachmas
And marks from Germany.
Coins of every shape and size
Commonwealth and foreign
A quarter from America
And a handsome silver florin.
Copper, brass and nickel
Wartime coins of zinc
Irish change with greyhounds
Some shekels too, I think.
Most of them are rather worn
Many scars and knocks
There was a threepenny “Joey”
In the bottom of the box.
But, sorting out the coppers
I found a rare old penny
AUSTRALIA 1930
They didn’t make very many.
Such a find just goes to show
You don’t need a detector
Just mooch around some junk shops
And become a coin collector.
Alan Parry-Booth................11th November 2015.
Scheme | A XBXC XXDX XEAE XFCF XCDC XBXB B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 11110111 01011 101010 011100 11100101 10010 01010100 00101010 101010 1111 10111 110111 1111101 10101 110110 0010101 1101010 1101110 010 1111010 1011111 1110010 1101111 00101010 1010111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 694 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on November 27, 2015
Modified on April 11, 2023
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