Analysis of The Comfort of Obscurity
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
INSPIRED BY READING MR. KIPLING'S POEMS AS
PRINTED IN THE NEW YORK PAPERS
Though earnest and industrious,
I still am unillustrious;
No papers empty purses
Printing verses
Such as mine.
No lack of fame is chronicker
Than that about my monicker;
My verse is never cabled
At a fabled
Rate per line.
Still though the Halls
Of Literature are closed
To me a bard obscure I
Have a consolation The
Copyreaders crude and rough
Can't monkey with my
Humble stuff and change MY
Punctuation.
| Scheme | AX XAXXB CCDDB XXEXXEEX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (45%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 010110101101 10001110 11000100 1111 1101010 1010 111 111111 110111 1111010 1010 111 1101 1100011 1101011 100100 100101 11011 101011 010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 482 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 5, 5, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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