Analysis of Polly Dibbs
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Mrs Dibbs - Polly Dibbs,
Standing at a tub,
Washing other people's clothes -
Rub-Rub-Rub.
Poor, old, skinny arms
White with soapy foam -
At night she takes her shabby hat
And goes off home.
Mrs Dibbs - Polly Dibbs -
Is not very rich.
She goes abroad all day to scrub,
And home at night to stitch.
She wears her shabby hat awry,
Perched on a silly comb;
And people laugh at Polly Dibbs
As she goes home.
Mrs Dibbs - Mother Dibbs -
Growing very old,
Says, "it's a hard world!"
And sniffs and drats the cold.
She says it is a cruel world,
A weary world to roam.
But God will smile on Polly Dibbs
When she goes Home.
Scheme | Ababacxc Adbdxcac aefefcac |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 10101 1010101 111 11101 11101 11110101 0111 101101 11101 11011111 011111 11010101 110101 01011101 1111 101101 10101 11011 010101 11110101 010111 11111101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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