Analysis of Playtime
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Brothers!
(I address myself to that chosen few - which includes you,
My dear reader - who
Are men of understanding, bright intellect and horse-sense, and to no others).
Brothers!
There comes one little period in the day
When each of us may say,
'Away!
Away with care and thoughts of toil and stress and pain!'
And, as we journey home in car or tram or train,
Let us leave office worries far behind,
Banish domestic troubles from the mind,
And just go gay.
Say,
Once a day,
For just a few brief minutes let us play.
Let us be joyous, and, with quip and quirk,
Forget the drudgery of daily work,
And, from this daily column
Banish the somnolent, the sad, the solemn.
Let us foregather, brothers, and discuss
Eliminating all the fume and fuss
The vagaries of our uncertain weather,
Let us commune together
Upon the steadfastness of politicians,
The fate of nations, and the strange conditions
Imposed on us in this, our daily life . . .
Mayhap, indeed, the wife
Waits home to greet our coming with a tale
Of household woes to turn a strong man pale;
Mayhap, forsooth, our business affairs
Have loaded us all day with heavy cares.
Leave all behind.
Shed, for a while, all trouble from the mind.
Let us
Discuss
The hot sock
And the short frock:
Of men and modes and manners let us talk,
Giving dull care a cunning miss in baulk.
We WILL be gay!
Just once a day!
We shall consider strikes in merry mood
And even joke about the price of food,
And all that sort of thing.
So it may bring
Joy to our hearts and to our worn minds ease.
I shall do all the talking, if you please,
And if, perchance, you cry, 'How bright!
How clever!'
Why, then, of course - However,
The thread of my discourse is somewhat broken,
But, brothers, I have spoken!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 111111011011 11101 11101011001101110 10 11110100001 111111 01 011101110101 011101011111 1111010101 1001010101 0111 1 101 1101110111 1111001101 0101001101 0111010 10010001010 11110001 010010101 010011001010 1110010 010101010 01110001010 01110110101 10101 11111010101 111110111 11101001 1101111101 1101 1101110101 11 01 011 0011 1101010111 1011010101 1111 1101 1101010101 0101010111 011111 1111 111010110111 1111010111 01011111 110 111110 01111011110 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,692 |
Words | 325 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 53 |
Lines Amount | 53 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,332 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 324 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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