Analysis of Fire Bugs
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Look 'ere. I'll bet a 'arf-a-crown
To anythink you like to name (said Bushy Bill),
If country fellers went to town,
An' burnt a few big buildin's down,
An' quids an' quids went up in flame (said Bushy Bill),
Do you suppose, by any chance,
You'd put it down to ignorance.
An' let 'em go their dilly way
To do the trick some other day? (Said Bushy Bill).
No fear. You'd take that crim'nal lot
An' likely lynch 'em on the spot.
Fine sense of property you got (said Bushy Bill).
Yet city coves come up this way,
Shootin' or goin' campin' out (said Bushy Bill).
But are they careful blokes? Not they.
An' when their camp fire gets away
They wonder what it's all about (said Bushy Bill).
They sling their matches round the place,
An' carry on a fair disgrace
Wise coots they are, all in the know,
Who reckons country coves is slow (said Bushy Bill).
But when two hundred thousand quid
Goes up, they dunno wot they did.
They can't think 'ow that green scrub caught
They never knoo. They never thought.
Look 'ere. IT'S TIME YOUS BLOKES WAS TAUGHT (said Bushy Bill).
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 1111111101 11010111 1101111 111111011101 11011101 11111100 11111101 110111011101 1111111 11011101 111100111101 11011111 111111101 11110111 111110101 110111011101 11110101 11010101 11111001 110101111101 11110101 11101111 11111111 11011101 111111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,046 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 14 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 396 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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