Analysis of Black Saturday
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
They say a touch of spring is in the air;
They say the wattle trees with bloom are gay;
They say each garden now begins to wear
(Not that I care)
A festal garb that waxes day by day
In loneliness. They tell, too, of blue skies
Aglow with hope . . . I laugh them all to scorn,
And gaze upon these things with listless eyes
That see nought but a vista most forlorn.
They say that bird songs come now with a rush
Of rarest melody; the ambient air
Thrills to the voice of blackbird and of thrush
(I answer 'Tush!
Let 'em go sing their heads off. I don't care.')
They say a kindly sun beams o'er the earth.
They say - Bah! Who pays heed to what they say?
Life is a sham; a mockery is mirth;
I'm making out my income tax today.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111001 1101011111 1111010111 1111 011110111 0100111111 0111111111 0101111101 1111010101 1111111101 11010001001 1101110011 1101 1111111111 11010111001 1111111111 1101010011 110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 717 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 272 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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