Analysis of Illuminations
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Smith is a loyalist good and true,
And a lad of the 'whole hog' class:
And yesterday, when he went to view
The Royal procession pass,
He'd flags in his buttonhole, flags in his hat,
Flags all gaudy and gay;
And he splintered the welkin from where he sat
With many a loud 'Hooray!'
Last night when the town was a blaze of light
Smith was still on his way;
And I saw him pass thro' the brilliant night,
Gaudy, vociferous, gay;
He was still in the fashion and going strong,
And I gather he'd been to sup
For he chortled a song as he went along,
Thoroughly well 'lit up.'
Scheme | ABABCDCD EDEDFGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100101 00110111 01011111 0100101 1101101011 111001 0110011111 1100101 1110110111 111111 0111110101 1001001 11100100101 01101111 11100111101 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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