Analysis of Mother's Day
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Matriarchy's coming fast,
Matriarchy's here!
Man's supremacy at last
Finds the end is near.
Since the days of troglodytes,
Man, the lord and master,
Sees his olden cherished rights,
Slipping fast and faster.
Daddy has no time to roam,
The household bills he's clearing,
Mummy's left four kids at home
And gone electioneering.
Mummy holds a sacred trust
To talk the public dizzy,
Daddy has to earn a crust,
And, gosh! it keeps him busy.
Once a chattel and a slave,
We grabbed her by her hair
And flung her in our private cave
To do our cooking there.
But, since her olden bonds were loosed,
More liberty she's craving,
And lovely woman rules the roost,
While mankind does the slaving.
Marriage is a full-time job
For Daddy, ever toiling:
He has to work, the poor old swab,
To keep the pot a-boiling.
But Mummy has the time to spare
To right a stricken nation.
Oh, cares! Oh, clubs! Oh, flowing hair!
This is emancipation!
Scheme | AXAXBCBC DEDEFBFB GHGHIEIE JEJEHKHK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 11 1010011 10111 10111 101010 1110101 101010 1011111 011110 1011111 010010 1010101 1101010 1011101 0111110 1010001 110101 010010101 1110101 11010101 1100110 01010101 111101 1010111 1101010 11110111 1101010 11010111 1101010 11111101 110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 899 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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