Analysis of A Street Riot
Ada Cambridge 1844 (St Germans, Norfolk) – 1926 (Melbourne)
Poor, hapless souls! at whom we stand aghast,
As at invading armies sweeping by —
As strange to haggard face and desperate cry —
Did we not know the worm must turn at last?
Poor, hungry men, with hungry children cast
Upon the wintry streets to thieve or die —
Suffering your wants and woes so silently -
Patient so long — is all your patience past?
Are there no ears to hear this warning call?
Are there no eyes to see this portent dread?
Must brute force rise and social order fall,
Ere these starved millions can be clothed and fed?
Justice be judge. Let future history say
Which are the greatest criminals to- day.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 1101010101 1111010101 1111011111 1101110101 0101011111 10011011100 1011111101 1111111101 1111111101 1111010101 1111011101 10111101001 1101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 242 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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