Analysis of The Parade

Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)



Along the lamp-lit streets they glide and go:
 Here Nature in her brutishness is nude:
 See, thinly trickling from the age-old wound,
 The steady stream of squandered womanhood!


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 0101111101 11000111 1101010111 010111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 185
Words 30
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 140
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Arthur Henry Adams

Arthur Henry Adams was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London.  more…

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