Analysis of Deaf House Agent
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
That deaf old man
With his hand to his ear--
His hand to hi head stood out like a shell,
Horny and hollow. He said, "I can't hear,"
He muttered, "Don't shout,
I can hear very well!"
He mumbled, "I can't catch a word;
I can't follow."
Then Jack with a voice like a Protestant bell
Roared--"Particulars! Farmhouse! At 10 quid a year!"
"I dunno wot place you are talking about."
Said the deaf old man.
Said Jack, "What the Hell!"
But the deaf old man took a pin from his desk, picked
a piece of wool the size of a hen's egg from his ear,
had a good look at it, decided in its favour and re-
placed it in the aforementioned organ.
Scheme | ABCBDC XXCXDACXBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 111111 1111111101 1001011111 11011 111101 11011101 1110 11101101001 1010011101 10111111001 10111 11101 101111011111 0111011011111 1011111001101 110001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 11 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 230 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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