Analysis of The Pallid Cuckoo
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Dolefully and drearily
Come I with the spring;
Wearily and cerily
My threnody I sing.
Hear my drear, discordant note
Sobbing, sobbing in my throat,
Weaving, wailing thro' the wattles
Where the builders are a-wing.
Outcast and ostracized,
Miserable me!
By the feathered world despised,
Chased from tree to tree.
Nought to do the summer thro',
My woeful weird a dree;
Singing, 'Pity, ah, pity,
Miserable me!'
I'm the menace and the warning,
Loafing, labour-shy.
In the harmony of morning
Out of tune am I-
Out of tune and out of work,
Meanly 'mid the leaves I lurk,
Fretfully to sing my sorrow,
Furtively to spy.
Outcast and desolate,
Miserable me!
Earning ever scorn and hate
For my treachery.
Shiftless drone, I grieve alone,
To a mournful key
Singing, 'Sorrow, ah, sorrow!
Miserable me!'
Scheme | ababccxb dEdeffeE bgbghhfg xExexefE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 11101 10001 1111 1110101 1010011 10101010 1010101 1010 10001 1010101 11111 1110101 110101 1010110 10001 10100010 111 00100110 11111 1110111 110111 111110 10011 10100 10001 1010101 11100 1011101 10101 1010110 10001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 765 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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