Analysis of Black-Out
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
These English actors are too mild,
Who seek to have their wrongs redressed.
No manager may be beguiled
By supplication or request.
Some sterner action is required,
A union boss they should engage,
If coloured folk are not desired
To 'crab their acts' upon the stage.
Ours is the method when in doubt;
And they should follow in our track.
And, if they'd keep these niggers out,
They promptly should 'declare them black.
Scheme | AAAX BCBC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11010111 1111111 11001101 11101 110101010 01011101 110111010 11110101 101010101 011100101 01111101 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 417 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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