Analysis of A Few Lines to Beauty
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Girls!
You with the bobbed hair or Mary Pickford curls,
Likewise you others
Who still adopt the hair-dressing style,
That makes the moderns smile.
But was undoubtedly the dearest attribute of your mothers.
And, by the by,
You with the glad-eye -
We've seen you in the street
Looking particularly sweet.
And we ask you
Do you think that those girls in the city that is reputed to possess a harbor
can overtask you?
In the matter of looking nice -
We do not seek to give advice;
And, frankly, we don't know.
We have seen both types and so,
Being diplomatic,
We refrain from expressing an opinion that is too emphatic.
We'll leave it to the vote,
Yet hasten to remark that we simply dote
Upon the maiden who
Is just like you,
Fair reader!
We seek not to assume the office or prerogative of a special pleader.
And we own that this question of State Rights
Gives us uneasy dreams o' nights.
Take no notice of those churls
Who tell you that the Sydney girls
Can put it all over you in regard to female beauty.
My dears, you have a duty
At any rate,
Toward your State.
Go in
And Win!
Among you are undoubtedly quite a number of perfect peaches
And the sirens of the Sydney beaches
May yet be proved to be not exactly the pick of the basket.
Girls!
With or without curls,
The honor of your State and the noble men therein ask it.
Here I conclude.
And I trust that these few well-chosen remarks have not been in bad taste or
over-rude.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11011110101 1110 110101101 110101 110100010101110 0101 11011 111001 1010001 0111 111111001011010101010 111 00101101 11111101 010111 1111101 10010 10110101010111010 111101 11010111101 010101 1111 110 1111010101010010101 0111110111 11010111 1110111 11110101 11111010011110 1111010 1101 0111 10 01 01110100101010110 0010101010 1111111010011010 1 11011 010111001010111 1101 011111110011110111 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,402 |
Words | 272 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 44 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 270 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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