Analysis of Whose Blame?
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
'A woman's work is never done,'
Said she.
'From dawn to setting of the sun,'
Said she.
'I toil and moil and work and slave,
And do my best to pinch and save,
And yet you say I don't behave,'
Said she.
And twenty men in twenty carts
In that suburban street
Long, long before the daylight starts
Are setting out with cakes and tarts
And fish and milk and meat
And cauliflowers, beans and bread
What time my lady lies in bed.
'All day I have to live alone,'
Said she.
'Attending to the door or 'phone,'
Said she.
'While you go gaily into town
To meet your friends, I want a gown,
A hat! This life has got me down,'
Said she.
And twenty men when day is done,
In that suburban street,
Who have performed the task of one
(If things more orderly were done),
Drive back along their beat. . .
It seems absurd. But, all the same,
Is it my lady who's to blame,
For all these economic cares,
Or just man's muddling of affairs?
Scheme | aBaBcccB dEddeff gBgBhhhB aEaaeiijj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 11 11110101 11 11010101 01111101 01111101 11 01010101 010101 1101011 11011101 010101 01101 11110101 11111101 11 01010111 11 11110011 11111101 01111111 11 01011111 010101 11010111 11110001 110111 11011101 11110111 1110101 111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 913 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 7, 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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