Analysis of Birthday Honours
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
My natal day was yesterday;
And so I said to Fate,
'What gifts bring you, by one, by two,
To ease my parlous state?'
'I proffer blindly,' Fate replied,
From chance-found joys and ills.
For you, the 'flu; and this beside,
A sheaf of monthly bills.'
My natal day was yesterday;
And so I said to Chance,
'What gifts bring you, by one, by two,
My fortunes to enhance?'
Said Chance, 'I bring no obvious thing.
Unguessed escape bring I
From dangers rife alway in life
That closely pass you by.'
My natal day was yesterday;
And so I said to Life,
'What gifts bring you, by one, by two,
To salve me in the strife?'
But Life said, 'Nought. Long since I brought
My gifts, glum misanthrope;
And these for you I here renew;
Myself and human hope.'
Scheme | AbCbdede AfCfxghg AhChxici |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 011111 11111111 11111 11010101 111101 11010101 011101 1101110 011111 11111111 110101 111111001 10111 1101101 110111 1101110 011111 11111111 111001 11111111 11110 01111101 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 721 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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