Analysis of Dickens
In a time
When the Thames was an open sewer.
Lime masked the corrupt effluent and smoking soot.
Fog hung on grey buildings creeping into every crevice.
Unnatural vapours hung onto the stove-pipe hats and grey drab coats
That came and went like shadows.
A Victorian society built on the ignorance and suffering of the poor.
From the harsh impersonality's of institutions and dirty factories.
A young orphan emerged searching for the vanished happiness.
Armed with the required pen and compassion
He changed systems
That allowed the bleak houses and child prostitution to flourish.
Today I watched the children play.
Uniformed girls sit in a circle swapping gossip.
Boys chased a football that bounced along
The lush green oval like a frightened rabbit.
Having a dickens of a time.
Scheme | AXXBXXX XBXXX XXXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001 101111010 110011000101 111110100110010 0100111001110111 110111 0010001001101000100101 10111010010100 011001101010100 11001010010 1110 101011001010110 01110101 101100101010 11011101 01110101010 10010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 763 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on December 04, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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