Analysis of A Summer Summary
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
Shall I, lying in a grot,
Die because the day is hot?
Or declare I can't endure
Such a torrid temperature?
Be it hotter than the flames
South Gehenna Junction claims,
If it be not so to me,
What care I how hot it be?
Shall I say I love the town
Praised by Robinson and Browne?
Shall I say, 'In summer heat
Old Manhattan can't be beat?'
Be it luring as a bar,
Or my neighbour's motor-car,
If I think it is pazziz
What care I how fine it is?
Shall I prate of rural joys
Far from civic smoke and noise?
Shall I, like the others, drool
'But the nights are always cool?'
If I hate to rise at six
Shall I praise the suburbs? Nix!
If the country's not for me,
What care I how good it be?
Town or country, cool or hot,
Differs nothing, matters not;
For to quote that Roman cuss,
Why dispute 'de gustibus?'
If to this or that one should
Take a fancy, it is good.
If these rhymes look good to me,
What care I how bad they be?
Scheme | AAXXBBCC DDAAEEBX FFGGHHCC AAXBAACC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110001 1010111 1011101 1010100 1110101 11101 1111111 1111111 1111101 1110001 1110101 1010111 1110101 111101 111111 1111111 1111101 1110101 1110101 101111 1111111 1110101 1010111 1111111 1110111 1010101 1111101 10111 1111111 1010111 1111111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 908 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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