Analysis of Adulations Artful Aid
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Some of us may be tall, ma'am;
Some of us may be dark;
Some handsome; tho' not all, ma'am,
Are touched by Beatury's spark.
But tall, and dark AND handsome, too?
Oh, lady! If you please! .. .. .. ..
It's really very nice of you;
But do you think they're really due
Superlatives like these?
We'd hate to doubt your word, ma'am,
Since you're informed in art,
Tho' much we'd have preferred, ma'am,
To play a humbler part.
But in meek deference to you,
Well, lady, we'll admit
We're tall and dark, and handsome, too,
It seems a rather boastful view,
But one gets used to it.
And now we're getting used, ma'am,
To thoughts that flattery brings,
You might well be induced ma'am,
To say some more nice things.
Are there not moral qualities,
Innate in each rare male,
That one of your discernment sees
Truth, strength, wit, wisdom - things like these?
Speak, ma'am. Let truth prevail.
We're so unused to praise, ma'am,
So used to blame most dire,
That flattery these days, ma'am,
Creates a new desire.
A complex quite inferior
(See Freud) its sickly hue
Cast o'er us. But if you'd say more
Along such lines - why, then, Encore!..
Thanks, ma'am. The same to you.
Scheme | ABABCDCCD AEAECFCCF AGAGDHDDH AXAIICJJC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 111111 1101111 11111 11010101 110111 11010111 11111101 010011 1111111 110101 1111011 1101001 10110011 110101 11010101 11010101 111111 0111011 1111001 1111011 111111 11110100 010111 11110101 11110111 111101 1101111 111111 1100111 0101010 01010100 111101 110111111 0111111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,136 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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