Analysis of The Ground Thrush
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
I'm a business man; and I can't spare time
For this fluting and fussing and frilling.
The song of my cousin may be sublime,
But I never have found it filling.
So I run and I dig and I dig and I run,
And I'm at it soon as the day's begun,
And I never knock off till the light is done
Over the garden and lawn and tilling.
I'm a business man on my business bent,
And I've never an hour of leisure.
I have little regard for sentiment,
And I fritter no time in pleasure.
But I dig and I run and I run and I dig;
And you never see me at my ease on a twig,
Prinking and posing in holiday rig
Or trilling a tuneful measure.
I'm a business man, and I've much to do;
So the day's work must be speeded.
For time is fleeting and worms are few-
I've never had all I needed.
So I run and I dig and I dig and I run
From sun to shadow, from shadow to sun,
I'm a business man, and the world I shun;
So I live and I die unheeded.
Scheme | ababCccb xdxdbbbd efexCccf |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101111 11101001 0111101101 111011110 111011011011 0111110101 01101110111 1001001010 1010111101 0110110110 1110011100 011011010 111011011011 011011111101 10100101 11001010 1010101111 10111110 111100111 11011110 111011011011 11111111 1010100111 111011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 906 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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