Analysis of The Fowl
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
A noble lesson this should teach,
Dear children unto you.
If other people's goods you reach,
Of rectitude 'twill be a breach,
Or parsons will your virtues preach,
According to the point of view,
Or to the kind of folks you 'do'.
You steal a chicken off a fence
With wrath the pious shake,
Although you say with eloquence
The owner used it ill, and hence
You kindly sought to recompense
The bird for troubles past, and make
It happier, for Heaven's sake.
But if you are a statesman grand,
And ships and armies raise,
To steel some feeble niggers' land,
To make its folks a Christian band,
To take their moral weal in hand
The Empire echoes with your praise,
And churches bless you all your days.
Scheme | ABAAABB CDXCCDD EFEEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010111 110101 11010111 1101101 11011101 01010111 11011111 11010101 110101 1111100 01011101 1101110 01110101 11001101 11110101 010101 11110101 11110101 11110101 010010111 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 685 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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