Analysis of The Lack
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
'This is the life!' said Dusty Dan
'This is the life to hand a man!
My happy way is strewn with flowers;
But why waste money on the showers?
'The hard cash wasted on that bath
Might yet make pleasanter my path,
If wisely spent on bottled beer
And motor cars to fetch us here!'
Scheme | AABB CCXX |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11011101 11011101 110111110 111101010 01110111 111111 11011101 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 278 |
Words | 59 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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