Analysis of Friar’s Song
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 – 1863
Some love the matin-chimes, which tell
The hour of prayer to sinner:
But better far's the mid-day bell,
Which speaks the hour of dinner;
For when I see a smoking fish,
Or capon drown'd in gravy,
Or noble haunch on silver dish,
Full glad I sing my ave.
My pulpit is an alehouse bench,
Whereon I sit so jolly;
A smiling rosy country wench
My saint and patron holy.
I kiss her cheek so red and sleek,
I press her ringlets wavy,
And in her willing ear I speak
A most religious ave.
And if I'm blind, yet heaven is kind,
And holy saints forgiving;
For sure he leads a right good life
Who thus admires good living.
Above, they say, our flesh is air,
Our blood celestial ichor:
Oh, grant! mid all the changes there,
They may not change our liquor!
Scheme | ABABCDCE XDCDFDFE XGXGHBHB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 01011110 11010111 11010110 11110101 111010 11011101 111111 1101111 111110 01010101 1101010 11011101 110110 00010111 010101 011111011 0101010 11110111 1101110 011110111 1010101 11110101 11111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 725 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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