Analysis of The Teacher
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
I'd like to be a teacher, and have a clever brain,
Calling out, 'Attention, please!' and 'Must I speak in vain?'
I'd be quite strict with boys and girls whose minds I had to train,
And all the books and maps and thngs I'd carefully explain;
I'd make then learn the dates of kings, and all the capes of Spain;
But I wouldn't be a teacher if ...
I couldn't use the cane.
Would you?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010010101 1010101011101 11111101111111 01010101110001 11110111010111 111010101 110101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 381 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 280 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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