Analysis of The Barber
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
I'd like to be a barber, and learn to shave and clip,
Calling out, 'Next please! and pocketing my tip.'
All day I'd hear my scissors going, 'Snip, Snip, Snip;'
I'd lather people's faces, and their noses I would grip
While I shaved most carefully along the upper lip.
But I wouldn't be a barber if ...
The razor was to slip.
Would you?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010011101 10111010011 111111010111 11010100110111 1111100010101 111010101 010111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 336 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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