Analysis of On A Pair Of Dice
Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)
We are little brethren twain,
Arbiters of loss and gain,
Many to our counters run,
Some are made, and some undone:
But men find it to their cost,
Few are made, but numbers lost.
Though we play them tricks for ever,
Yet they always hope our favour.
Scheme | AABBCDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 1001101 10110101 1110101 1111111 1111101 11111110 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 248 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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