Analysis of It's No Joke to One Bloke

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)



Dear Comrade: In the game of politics
A Senator gits quite enough of kicks
Without 'is photer sittin' in the press
Wot makes 'is map look like a nasty mess
A pitcher that present 'im to the mob
A fair gazob.

Me, I ain't vain, but it is past a joke
To go an' print a crook dile of a bloke
So that the mob sez, 'Is this Digger?  Struth!
'E's changed a good bit since 'is flamin' youth.
We thort 'e was a better lookin' chap.
 Strike!  Wot a man!'

Why make me look like somethin' choice in crooks?
For, if I ain't got nothin' but me looks,
Why, gimme looks, an' bung a photer in
That gives me sex-appeal a dinkum spin
I ain't - (For w'ich remark 'e'll please excuse)
 No Billy Hughes.

An' so, I sends 'erewith me dinkum chiv -
The dinkum Digger, w'ich I 'ope you'll give
A bit o' space to 'elp along your sales
An' mind you say I come from Noo South Wales!
That ought to fetch 'em.  So you play your part,
An' 'ave a 'eart.


Scheme AABBCC DDEEXX FFGGXX HHIIJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 11001110 0100110111 01111001 1111110101 0101101101 011 1111111101 1111011101 1101111101 110111111 111101011 1101 111111101 1111110111 110111010 111101011 1111001011101 1101 11111111 011010011111 0111110111 1111111111 1111111111 1101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 907
Words 189
Sentences 13
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 167
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet known for his humorous poems, especially "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century. Though Dennis's work is less well known today, his 1915 publication of The Sentimental Bloke sold 65,000 copies in its first year, and by 1917 he was the most prosperous poet in Australian history. Together with Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, both of whom he had collaborated with, he is often considered among Australia's three most famous poets. While attributed to Lawson by 1911, Dennis later claimed he himself was the 'laureate of the larrikin'. When he died at the age of 61, the Prime Minister of Australia Joseph Lyons suggested he was destined to be remembered as the 'Australian Robert Burns'. more…

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