Analysis of Professor Tait, Loquitur
James Clerk Maxwell 1831 (Edinburgh, Scotland) – 1879 (Cambridge, England)
Will mounted ebonite disk
On smooth unyielding bearing,,
When turned about with notion brisk
(Nor excitation sparing),
Affect the primitive repose,
Of + and — in a wire,
So that while either downward flows,
The other upwards shall aspire?
Describe the form and size of coil,
And other things that we may need,
Think not about increase of toil
Involved in work at double speed.
I can no more, my pen is bad,
It catches in the roughened page-—
But answer us and make us glad,
THOU ANTI-DISTANCE-ACTION SAGE!
Yet have I still a thousand things to say
But work of other kinds is pressing—
So your petitioner will ever pray
That your defence be triple messing.
Scheme | ABABCDCEFGFGHIHIJBJB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11011 1101010 11011101 101010 01010001 100010 11110101 01010101 01010111 01011111 11010111 01011101 11111111 1100011 11010111 11010101 1111010111 111101110 1101001101 110111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 650 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 515 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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