Analysis of The Silver-Eye
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Down among the strawberries,
Up among the plums,
Cheeping in the cherry-tree
When early autumn comes,
In our silver spectacles
And sober olive suits.
We're very, very innocent;
We wouldn't touch your fruits.
Well, maybe just a speckled one,
A windfall here and there.
But raid your precious strawberries?
Oh no, we wouldn't dare.
Behold our bland astonishment,
The charge is quite absurd!
It must have been a parrot
Or some other kind of bird.
It must have been a satin bird;
It must have been a crow.
It couldn't possibly be us;
We are so meek, you know,
With our silver spectacles.
The accusation's vile!
How can you deem us guilty
When we're whistling all the while?
Well, if you've caught us in the act
There's no more to be said.
The plums are blue and succulent,
The strawberries are red.
And who'd refuse a dainty dish
When early autumn comes?
Oh, write a rhyme about us, man,
And pay for all your plums.
Scheme | abcBdefe xgagfhxh hixidjcj xkxkxBxb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 10101 100101 110101 01010100 010101 11010100 110111 11010101 01101 1111010 111101 011010100 011101 1111010 1110111 11110101 111101 11010011 111111 11010100 011 1111110 1110101 11111001 111111 01110100 01011 01010101 110101 11010111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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