Analysis of Political fiddle

E.S. Conway 1985 (United Kingdom)



Hey diddle diddle, the PMs on the fiddle,
The chancellors made us all broke.
The treasury’s bust, the farms are all dust,
And the monarchy’s become just a joke!


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 111011010 01001111 0100101111 00101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 161
Words 29
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted by almostemily on May 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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E.S. Conway

A poet by proxy of therapy. Her works (with only a couple of exceptions) are comprised of poems written in a form of therapy diary, they served for several years as an aid to dealing with situations that may or may not be within the poems themselves. This is also the reason for so much rhyming; though not necessary for poetry, it was part of what made poetry therapeutic for her and so is an almost certain constant. more…

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