Analysis of The Deadly Dummy
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
'It's the dummy wot done it,' said Bleary Bill.
'As a child I was out o' luck.
A kid in me pram, that's wot I am
When they gimme the thing to suck.
An' I took to it good, for I like the taste;
With never a thought of a life laid waste.
Then I took to nippin' upon the sly,
Or avin' a suck with a friend,
Tho' a neighbourin' kid warned me, 'e did,
It would get me, sure, in the end.
An' git me it did, as you see today.
In a most insidius an' 'orrible way.
I know as me 'abits is not the best.
An' I know as the beer's a curse;
But don't blame me, for me choice weren't free,
An' the blame of it's all on nurse.
So, please, yer Honor, don't make it 'ot,
An' I'll swear off dummies right on the spot.'
Scheme | XAXABB XCXCDD XEXEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101111101 10111111 010111111 11100111 11111111101 1100110111 111110101 1101101 10111111 11111001 1111111101 0011111 111111101 11110101 1111111101 10111111 111101111 1111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 691 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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