Analysis of A Pleasant Invective Against Printing
Henry Austin Dobson 1840 (Plymouth) – 1921
"Flee fro the PREES, and dwelle with sothfastnesse."--CHAUCER, Balade de Bon Conseil.
The Press is too much with us, small and great:
We are undone of chatter and on dit,
Report, retort, rejoinder, repartee,
Mole-hill and mare's nest, fiction up-to-date,
Babble of booklets, bicker of debate,
Aspect of A., and attitude of B.--
A waste of words that drive us like a sea,
Mere derelict of Ourselves, and helpless freight!
"O for a lodge in some vast wilderness!"
Some region unapproachable of Print,
Where never cablegram could gain access,
And telephones were not, nor any hint
Of tidings new or old, but Man might pipe
His soul to Nature,--careless of the Type!
Scheme | X AABAABBA XCXCDD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010111101111 0111111101 1101110011 01101001 1101110111 1011010101 11001011 0111111101 11010010101 1101011100 110111 11010111 010011101 1101111111 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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