Analysis of Work-Girls' Holiday
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
A lady has a thousand ways
Of doing nothing all her days,
And so she thinks that they're well spent,
She can be idle and content.
But when I have a holiday
I have forgotten how to play.
I could rest idly under trees
When there's some sun or little breeze
Or if the wind should prove too strong
Could lie in bed the whole day long.
But any leisured girl would say
That that was waste of holiday.
Perhaps if I had weeks to spend
In doing nothing without end,
I might learn better how to shirk
And never want to go to work.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 11010101 01111111 11110010 1111010 11010111 11110101 11111101 11011111 11010111 1101111 1111110 01111111 01010011 11110111 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 406 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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