Analysis of Ep - and - Ein
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Sometimes I risk a faltering step
To meet these -steins, both Ein- and Ep-:
But hesitate and halt at last,
Finding the works of each too vast
For such a finite brain as mine.
They gravel me, both Ep- and Ein-.
Ein-'s themes on space, Ep-'s things in stone
Both leave me gasping. Tho' I own
They're 'after something,' as men say,
What master minds, what years away,
Will fully grasp at last those fine
Profundities of Ep- and Ein-?
I sometimes like to think, if Ep-
Could be induced to take the step,
He might translate and bring in bounds
Vague theories that Ein- propounds
Carve them in stone, that, in the end
Mere fools like me might comprehend.
Working together thus they might
To a dull-witted world bring light.
But when each labors all alone,
Ep- at his monstrous things in stone.
Ein- with his talk of time-light-space
Just leave me with a wooden face.
Tho' here and now I own the twain
Bring but a bussing in my brain,
Yet I, like others of my kind,
Keen to be thought a 'modern' mind,
If asked, will learnedly admit,
Each is indutitably It.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEECC AAXEFF GGDDHH IIJJKK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 011101001 11111101 1100111 10011111 1101111 11011101 1111111101 11110111 11010111 11011101 11011111 11101 10111111 11011101 11010101 110111 11011001 1111101 10010111 10110111 11110101 11110101 11111111 11110101 11011101 11010011 11110111 11110101 111101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,031 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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