Analysis of Office Mottoes
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
Motto heartening, inspiring,
Framed above my pretty *desk,
Never Shelley, Keats, or Byring*
Penned a phrase so picturesque!
But in me no inspiration
Rides my low and prosy brow-
All I think of is vacation
When I see that lucubration:
DO IT NOW
When I see another sentence
Framed upon a brother's wall,
Resolution and repentance
Do not flood o'er me at all
As I read that nugatory
Counsel written years ago,
Only when one comes to borry[Footnote: Entered under the Pure License of
1906.]
Do I heed that ancient story:
TELL HIM NO
Mottoes flat and mottoes silly,
Proverbs void of point or wit,
'KEEP A-PLUGGIN' WHEN IT'S HILLY!'
'LIFE'S A TIGER: CONQUER IT!'
Office mottoes make me weary
And of all the bromide bunch
There is only one I seri-
Ously like, and that's the cheery:
GONE TO LUNCH
Scheme | AXAXBCBB C DEDECFXXG F GHGHGICG I |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100010 1011101 1010111 1011100 1011010 111011 11111010 11111 111 11101010 1010101 0100010 11110111 11111 1010101 1011111101001101 1 11111010 111 110110 1011111 1011110 1010101 1011110 011011 1110111 1101010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 854 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1, 9, 1, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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