Analysis of A Fair Exchange
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Would you be much impressed, my dear,
Now you've adopted shorts,
If males like me came dressed, my dear,
In skirts, to divers sports?
With gussets, flares and pleats and things
Like that, we'd give our fancy wings
To grace the links and courts.
You should not worry very much,
Since male attire you choose,
If, with a chic Parisian touch
And taste in cut and hues,
We garbed ourselves, from neck to knees,
In crepe de chine or 'summer breeze'
Of pretty pinks and blues.
Would frills and flounces seem absurd
Upon the manly form?
I don't see why, upon my word,
Such gads, should raise a storm
Of ridicule. And, if they do,
Scorn coming from one garbed like you
Is really rather warm.
Think the position out, my dear,
And be consistent, please.
And, while you dash about, my dear,
In pants shorn to the knees,
You're drawing from the normal male
The same loud laugh with which you'd hail
A man in fripperies.
Scheme | ABABCCB DEDEFFE GHGHIIH AFAFJJB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 110101 11111111 011101 1110101 111110101 110101 11110101 1101011 11010101 010101 110011111 01111101 110101 11010101 010101 11110111 111101 1100111 11011111 110101 10010111 010101 01110111 011101 11010101 01111111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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