Analysis of Comedy
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
I'm writing comedy again,
The daintiest pleasure known to men;
Unless a daintier might be
To watch your acted comedy:
The airy ladies gaily dressed,
And much adored, and much caressed,
The men who swagger like game cocks,
Or undermine, like cunning fox,
And over all these shaken free
The spangled gleam of repartee—
No keener joy awaits us here.
And yet each day I write with fear.
Scheme | AABBCCDDBBEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010001 0110111 010111 11110100 01010101 01010101 01110111 1101101 01011101 0101101 11010111 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 381 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 302 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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