Analysis of School
James Kenneth Stephen 1859 (London) – 1892
If there is a vile, pernicious,
Wicked and degraded rule,
Tending to debase the vicious,
And corrupt the harmless fool;
If there is a hateful habit
Making man a senseless tool,
With the feelings of a rabbit
And the wisdom of a mule;
It's the rule which inculcates,
It's the habit which dictates
The wrong and sinful practice of going into school.
If there's anything improving
To an erring sinner's state,
Which is useful in removing
All the ills of human fate;
If there's any glorious custom
Which our faults can dissipate,
And can casually thrust 'em
Out of sight and make us great;
It's the plan by which we shirk
Half our matu-ti-nal work,
The glorious institution of always being late.
James Kenneth Stephen.
Scheme | ABABCBCBDDB EFEFXFXFGGF X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 1000101 10101010 0010101 11101010 1010101 10101010 0010101 101110 1010101 0101010110011 1110010 111011 11100010 1011101 111010010 1101110 01100011 1110111 1011111 1101111 010001011101 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 697 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 27, 2023
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