Analysis of More for the Money



What are the wild waves saying now that their lengths are changed?
In a manner most dismaying are the stations now aranged.
And I twist and twirl and twiddle at the knobs, then, with a screech
Come sounds of a sobbing fiddle and a League of Nations speech,
Or the Abyssinian crisis with the football field's alarms,
Or the fat stock market prices mixed up with stuff by 'Brahms.'
More for my money truly in these daft days I get.
Since the waves become unruly and the solo's a duet:-
 From 3HA and 3DB, or 3LO and 7NT,
 From 3AR and 5CK.  Sounds mingle in the cutest way:
 'You are listening now . . . to a song by Bach . . .
 On the Jersey cow . . . 'Hahk, Hahk, the Lahk!'
On the cult of the tomato . . .
My cutie says . . .  Scratched for the Cup . . .
 Von Plonken plays . . .  Prime wethers up . . .
 With a 'cello obligato . . .'

What are the wild waves saying, now that their paths o'erlap?
And the trumpet's brazen braying breaks in on the solemn chap
Who tell the listening nation how flames of war arise;
But a strident Sydney station yells, 'Smoke gets in your eyes.'
And you'll note if you're observant that, spite of all you say,
Your boss, the Civil Servant, goes on his own sweet way;
He deplores the sad disaster when your set so misbehaves;
But the servant rules the master, and choas rules the waves.
From 3HA and 3DB, from 3LO and 7NT,
From 3AR and 5CK.  Sounds mingle in the quaintest way.
But in a while you cease to smile,
For the thing's no longer funny.
Listener, be wise.  Pray, realise
You get more for your money.


Scheme AABBCXDDAEXXXFFA FXGGEEHHAEXICI
Poetic Form
Metre 1101110111111 00101010101011 011010101011101 111010100011101 1001010101101 10111010111111 1111010011111 10101010001001 11011101 110111000101 11100110111 101011101 1011001 1111101 111111 10101 110111011111 0011011010101 11010010111101 10101010111011 01111010111111 1101010111111 10101010111101 1010101001101 11011101 11011100011 10011111 10111010 1001111 1111110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,519
Words 285
Sentences 42
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 16, 14
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 571
Words per stanza (avg) 155
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet known for his humorous poems, especially "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century. Though Dennis's work is less well known today, his 1915 publication of The Sentimental Bloke sold 65,000 copies in its first year, and by 1917 he was the most prosperous poet in Australian history. Together with Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, both of whom he had collaborated with, he is often considered among Australia's three most famous poets. While attributed to Lawson by 1911, Dennis later claimed he himself was the 'laureate of the larrikin'. When he died at the age of 61, the Prime Minister of Australia Joseph Lyons suggested he was destined to be remembered as the 'Australian Robert Burns'. more…

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