Analysis of When I First Put This Uniform On
William Schwenck Gilbert 1836 – 1911
When I first put this uniform on,
I said, as I looked in the glass,
"It's one to a million
That any civilian
My figure and form will surpass.
Gold lace has a charm for the fair,
And I've plenty of that, and to spare,
While a lover's professions,
When uttered in Hessians,
Are eloquent everywhere!"
A fact that I counted upon,
When I first put this uniform on!
I said, when I first put it on,
"It is plain to the veriest dunce
That every beauty
Will feel it her duty
To yield to its glamour at once.
They will see that I'm freely gold-laced
In a uniform handsome and chaste" -
But the peripatetics
Of long-haired aesthetics,
Are very much more to their taste -
Which I never counted upon
When I first put this uniform on!
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Metre | 11111101 11111001 111010 110010 11001101 11101101 011011011 1010010 11001 110010 01111001 11111101 11111111 1111011 110010 111010 11111011 111111011 00101001 101 111010 11011111 11101001 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 705 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 277 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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