Analysis of Fashion
Ada Cambridge 1844 (St Germans, Norfolk) – 1926 (Melbourne)
See those resplendent creatures, as they glide
O'er scarlet carpet, between footmen tall,
From sumptuous carriage to effulgent hall -
A dazzling vision in their pomp and pride!
See that choice supper - needless - cast aside -
Though worth a thousand fortunes, counting all,
To them for whom no crumb of it will fall -
The starved and homeless in the street outside.
Some day the little great god will decree
That overmuch connotes the underbred,
That pampered body means an empty head,
And wealth displayed the last vulgarity.
When selfish greed becomes a social sin
The world's regeneration may begin.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010111 1010100111 11010111 01001001101 1111010101 1101010101 1111111111 0101000111 1101011101 110101 1101011101 0101010100 1101010101 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 242 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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