Analysis of A Strike Rhyme
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
The strike's done.
The men won.
The ships sail the sea
To bring back
What we lack,
Coal, sugar, tea.
And I'm glad,
Though I had
Rather never use
Tea and spice
And what's nice
Than see the men lose.
Scheme | AABCCBDDEFFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 011 01101 111 111 1101 011 111 10101 101 011 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 205 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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