Analysis of Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. 1861 ( Louisville, Kentucky) – 1949 ( Louisville, Kentucky)
’Tis strange indeed to hear us plead
For selling and for buying
When yesterday we said: “Away
With all good things but dying.”
The world’s ago, and we’re agog
To have our first brief inning;
So let’s away through surge and fog
However slight the winning.
What deeds have sprung from plow and pick!
What bank-rolls from tomatoes!
No dainty crop of rhetoric
Can match one of potatoes.
Ye orators of point and pith,
Who force the world to heed you,
What skeletons you’ll journey with
Ere it is forced to feed you.
A little gold won’t mar our grace,
A little ease our glory.
This world’s a better biding place
When money clinks its story.
Scheme | XAXA BABA CDCD XEXE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011111 1100110 1101101 1111110 01010001 11101110 11011101 101010 11111101 1111010 11011100 1111010 11001101 1101111 11001101 1111111 010111101 01011010 11010101 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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