Analysis of An Error in Creation
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
There was once a man who made a weird machine,
Employing dynamite and kerosene.
His subsequent destruction
Was a matter of deduction,
And a circumstance that might have been foreseen.
This gloomy incident I merely state
In case you have a yearning to create.
In which event, be wary,
Else, mayhap, a sad quan-dary
Will arise and face you when it's far too late.
Now, take the case of Toryphat, M.P.,
Created by the voters - you and me.
Then in matters legislative
He becomes, in turn, creative.
And creates a Deakook Fusion Ministree.
You will notice that this question, as a whole,
Is a matter over which we've some control;
For, it we'd contemplated
Ere the members we created,
We would not have landed things in such a hole.
And, in regard to this strange Ministree,
We are the folk responsible, you see.
For it couldn't have existed
Had not some of us assisted
In creating its supporters - Q.E.D.
Then, when a weird political machine
Of Tory flare and Fusion kerosene
Blows our policies to blazes,
All our most embittered phrases
Won't recover e'en the smallest smithereen.
Scheme | AABBA CCDDC XDEED FFXGF DDGGC AAXXA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (37%) |
Metre | 11101110101 01010010 1100010 10101010 001011111 1101001101 0111010101 0101110 110111 10101111111 1101111 0101010101 1010100 10101010 00101101 11101110101 10101011101 111100 10101010 11111010101 00011111 1101010011 11101010 11111010 001010101 1101010001 110101010 110100110 110101010 10101101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,056 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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