Analysis of Cases - Pollard V. Photographic Company
James Williams 1869 (Taigwynion, near Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire) – 1954 (United Kingdom)
(40 Chancery Division, 345)
"Shall I take your photograph, my pretty maid?"
"You may if you like, kind sir," she said.
"Do you like your photograph, my pretty maid?"
"It is more than flattering, sir," she said.
"I'll publish your photograph, my pretty maid."
"Indeed but you won't, kind sir," she said.
"As a Christmas card, my pretty maid."
"The very idea, kind sir!" she said.
"But what if I've done it, my pretty maid?"
"I'll get an injunction, sir," she said.
"The law is with you, my pretty maid,"
The learned judge of the Chancery said.
"You have proved the negative, my pretty maid,
A difficult thing in law," he said.
Scheme | X AB AB AB AB AB AB AB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 100010 1111101101 111111111 1111101101 1111100111 1101101101 011111111 101011101 0100101111 1111111101 111010111 011111101 011101001 11101001101 010010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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