Analysis of An Inequitable Impost
Edward George Dyson 1865 (Ballarat, Victoria) – 1931 (Saint Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria)
The first one with conviction penned:
“This conflict in seven weeks will end.”
Another, later in the war,
Gave Germany just one month more.
Since then I’ve read predictions free –
They dribble in unceasingly.
All wrong. And still the critics say
When it will finish to the day.
Hughes should get cash in mighty sacks
From his proposed War Prophets Tax.
Scheme | AA BB XX CC DD |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 01110101 110010111 01010001 11001111 11110101 11001 11010101 11110101 11110101 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 359 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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