Analysis of Asking Too Much
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
You can't expect it! Goodness me!
T'would be a dreadful policy!
What sort of Ministerial dunce
Would try to do two things at once?
How can they deal with city needs,
While Bungalong or Rooville pleads,
For culverts, and Wow-wow grows sick
Through want of bridges o'er its 'crick?'
The logic of the thing's so plain:
To legislate on tram and train
Can't dig a single, blighted spud
Or help one milker chew her cud.
Then what's the use? One might say more:
What are our legislators for?
Such vaunted measures as Defence
Won't build a single dog-leg fence.
Your splendid dreams of nationhood
Don't do the cocky any good.
Besides, there's something more than that,
They're apt to interfere with Fat!
Scheme | AABB BBCC DDEE FFBB GGHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 111010100 11101001 11111111 11111101 11111 1101111 111101011 01010111 1101101 11010101 1111101 11011111 11101001 11010101 11010111 1101110 11010101 01110111 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 685 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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