Analysis of Beauty's Blemish
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
You are as young, O lady mine,
As ere you were in olden days,
Your lips are red, your blue eyes shine,
And still you have your girlish ways.
I hate to think what years have flown
Since first I praised these things, mine own.
Your frocks still have that youthful cut,
Garbing a svelte form, slim and flat.
You should be spreading, darling but
Your middle-age has brought no fat.
Indeed, you sometimes seem at nights
A flapper, seen in certain lights.
My fond eyes have surveyed you, sweet,
Thro' all these years and found no fault.
Your lustrous hair, your tiny feet
Are still perfection. Yet a halt
In my high praise wakes sudden fears:
You're growing old behind the ears!
Yet, even then, I'd not repine
If that grey matter which should fill
That pretty head, O lady mine,
Gained age, 'twere compensation still;
And I'd forgive the ravening years,
If you'd mature above the ears.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII AJAJII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 11100101 11111111 01111101 11111111 11111111 11111101 1011101 11110101 11011111 01101111 01010101 11110111 11110111 11011101 11010101 01111101 11010101 1101111 11110111 11011101 1110101 0101011 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 867 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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