Analysis of A Street Fight
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
SIR, we approve your curling lip and nose
At this vile sight.
These men, these women are 'brute beasts'? — Who knows,
Sir, but that you are right?
Panders and harlots, rogues and thieves and worse,
We are a crew
Whose pitiful plunder's honoured in the purse
Of gentlemen (like you),
Whom holy Competition's taught (like us)
'What's thine is mine!' —
How we must love you who have made us thus,
You may perhaps divine!
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 1101110101 1111 1111011111 111111 10110101 1101 110011001 110011 110010111 1111 1111111111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 418 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 316 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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