This is an analysis of The Clerk by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
The unsoiled hand, the sleek, black coat,
The senile, ledger-haunted hours,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefcaXa ghghbXba iiiijaXa kXkacccc fjfjXlcX XcbcdadX bdXXXclc dXdXadad
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 010010111 011101010 01011101 010101110 01010101 01110101 11000011 11000101 01000001 01110111 11110101 11101111 10010101 01110101 010111110 01010101 11010001 11010101 11111111 11010001 01111101 01010100 01111111 11010111 010101101 10011111 11110101 010010111 11100111 11110101 01010111 11011101 11010101 101110100 01111100 01010101 10111101 11110101 11011101 01100011 11110101 11001111 111101010 11000111 11010101 01010110 11110101 11011100 11110111 101110101 11010101 11110011 11101101 11010001 01010111 01010100 10010101 11010101 1111010 01110111 11010100 11010011 11111100 11110111 011101001 01010001 01011101 11110011 01000101 01000101 11010001 11110001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
my, who, our, of
Anaphora
the, a, that, i, with
