Analysis of The Christmas Beetle
Leon Gellert 1892 (Australia) – 1977
When Christmas comes the Christmas heat'll
bring once more the Christmas Beetle
The first inflammatory breeze'll
set him buzzing like a diesel.
Hear him open up his throttle
as he hums above the wattle!
Hear him zoom, and snarl and rattle
Like a fighter plane in battle!
Watch him dive to sink and settle-
Folding up his wings of metal -
Cutting off the engines sound
as quietly as he comes to ground.
Then watch some sparrows, frail and lowly,
Strike him swiftly, rend him wholly.
Scheme | AAAAAAAAAABBAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 11101010 0101001 11101010 11101110 11101010 11101010 10101010 11111010 10111110 1010101 110011111 111101010 11101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 477 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 383 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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