Analysis of A Toast to the Men
Edgar Albert Guest 1881 (Birmingham) – 1959 (Detroit, Michigan)
Here's to the men! Since Adam's time
They've always been the same;
Whenever anything goes wrong,
The woman is to blame.
From early morn to late at night,
The men fault-finders are;
They blame us if they oversleep,
Or if they miss a car.
They blame us if, beneath the bed,
Their collar buttons roll;
They blame us if the fire is out
Or if there is no coal.
They blame us if they cut themselves
While shaving, and they swear
That we're to blame if they decide
To go upon a tear.
Here's to the men, the perfect men!
Who never are at fault;
They blame us if they chance to get
The pepper for the salt.
They blame us if their business fails,
Or back a losing horse;
And when it rains on holidays
The fault is ours, of course.
They blame us when they fall in love,
And when they married get;
Likewise they blame us when they're sick,
And when they fall in debt.
For everything that crisscross goes
They say we are to blame;
But, after all, here's to the men,
We love them just the same!
Scheme | XAXAXBXBXCXCXDXD EFGFXHXHXGXGXAEA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 11101 0101011 010111 11011111 011101 1111101 111101 11110101 110101 111101011 111111 11111101 110011 1111111 110101 11010011 110111 11111111 010101 11111101 110101 0111110 0111011 11111101 011101 1111111 011101 110111 111111 11011101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,060 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 16 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 375 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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