Analysis of Where's the Use?
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Oh, where's the use of having gifts that can't be turned to money?
And where's the use of singing, when there's no one wants to hear?
It may be one or two will say your songs are sweet as honey,
But where's the use of honey, when the loaf of bread is dear?
| Scheme | ABAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111011111110 01011101111111 111111111111110 11011101011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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