Analysis of On Torture: A Public Singer
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
Torture will give a dozen pence or more
To keep a drab from bawling at his door.
The public taste is quite a different thing-
Torture is positively paid to sing.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1011010111 110111111 01011101001 1011000111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 169 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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