Analysis of Our Street
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
In our street, the main street
Running thro' the town,
You see a lot of busy folk
Going up and down:
Bag men and basket men,
Men with loads of hay,
Buying things and selling things
And carting things away.
The butcher is a funny man,
He calls me Dandy Dick;
The baker is a cross man,
I think he's often sick;
The fruiterer's a nice man,
He gives me apples, too;
The grocer says, "Good morning, boy,
What can I do for you?"
Of all the men in our street
I like the cobbler best,
Tapping, tapping at his last
Without a minute's rest;
Talking all the time he taps,
Driving in the nails,
Smiling with his old grey eyes -
(Hush) ... telling fairy tales.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC DEDE DFXF AGXG XHXH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0101011 10101 11011101 10101 110101 11111 1010101 010101 01010101 111101 0101011 111101 01011 111101 01011101 111111 11010101 110101 1010111 010101 1010111 10001 1011111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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