Analysis of A Street Fight



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
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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Francis William Lauderdale Adams

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