This is an analysis of The Teacher by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

I'd like to be a teacher, and have a clever brain,
Calling out, 'Attention, please!' and 'Must I speak in vain?'…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaaaXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1100010110101 10110010111101 10110111111101 11011111110001 11110101110101 111000100 110101 11
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

and, i'd