Analysis of The Mob
Ada Cambridge 1844 (St Germans, Norfolk) – 1926 (Melbourne)
Why stand dumbfounded and aghast,
As at invading armies sweeping by,
Surprised by haggard face and threatening cry,
The storm unheralded, that rose so fast?
Men, with gaunt wives and hungry children, cast
Upon the wintry streets to thieve or die,
They cannot always suffer silently;
Patience gives out. The poor worm turns at last.
And no ear listens to the warning call.
No eye awakes to see the portent dread.
Must brute force reign and social order fall
Ere these starved millions can be clothed and fed?
A strange phenomenon, this, unconcern -
To live so fast and be so slow to learn!
Scheme | ABBAABXA CDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100001 1101010101 01110101001 0101001111 1111010101 0101011111 110110100 1011011111 0111010101 111110101 1111010101 1111011101 01010101 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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