Analysis of The Dictaphone Bard
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
[And here is a suggestion: Did you ever try dictating your stories or articles to the dictaphone for the first draft? I would be glad to have you come down and make the experiment.--From a shorthand reporter's circular letter.]
(As "The Ballad of the Tempest" would have to issue from the dictaphone to the stenographer)
We were crowded in the cabin comma
Not a soul would dare to sleep dash comma
It was midnight on the waters comma
And a storm was on the deep period
Apostrophe Tis a fearful thing in capital Winter
To be shattered by the blast comma
And to hear the rattling trumpet
Thunder colon quote capital Cut away the mast exclamation point close quote
So we shuddered there in silence comma dash
For the stoutest held his breath comma
While the hungry sea was roaring comma
And the breakers talked with capital Death period
As thus we sat in darkness comma
Each one busy with his prayers comma
Quote We are lost exclamation point close quote the captain shouted comma
As he staggered down the stairs period
But his little daughter whispered comma
As she took his icy hand colon
Quote Isn't capital God upon the ocean comma
Just the same as on the land interrogation point close quote
Then we kissed the little maiden comma
And we spake in better cheer comma
And we anchored safe in harbor
When the morn was shining clear period
Scheme | AA BBBC ABXD XBBC BBBC BXBD BBAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100101110110110110010101011111111111010010010101010010 10101010111101010100100 1010001010 1011111110 111101010 0011101100 010010101010010 111010110 01101010 1010110010101010111 11101010101 10111110 1010111010 0010111001100 111101010 111011110 11110101110101010 1110101100 1110101010 111110110 11010010101010 10111010010111 1110101010 011010110 01101010 1011101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,338 |
Words | 245 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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