Analysis of On Two Ministers of State
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
Lump says that Caliban's of gutter breed,
And Caliban says Lump's a fool indeed,
And Caliban and Lump and I are all agreed.
| Scheme | AAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet Triplet |
| Metre | 11111101 01110101 0101011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 129 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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