This is an analysis of On Torture: A Public Singer by Hilaire Belloc.
Torture will give a dozen pence or more
To keep a drab from bawling at his door.…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 1001010111 0101010101 01010101001 1001000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
