Analysis of Grotesque
Frederic Manning 1882 (Sydney) – 1935 (Hampstead)
These are the damned circles Dante trod,
Terrible in hopelessness,
But even skulls have their humour,
An eyeless and sardonic mockery:
And we,
Sitting with streaming eyes in the acrid smoke,
That murks our foul, damp billet,
Chant bitterly, with raucous voices
As a choir of frogs
In hideous irony, our patriotic songs.
| Scheme | ABCCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 110110101 1000100 1101111 1100010100 01 10110100101 11101110 110011010 101011 0100100100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 318 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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