Analysis of Parody
George Canning 1770 (Marylebone, Middlesex) – 1827 (Chiswick, Middlesex)
For one long term, or e'er her trial came,
Here Brownrigg linger'd. Often have these cells
Echoed her blasphemies, as with shrill voice
She scream'd for fresh Geneva. Not to her
Did the blithe fields of Tothill, or thy street
St. Giles, its fair varieties expand;
Till at the last in slow drawn cart she went
To execution. Dost thou ask her crime?
She whipp'd two female 'prentices to death,
And hid them in the coal-hole. For her mind
Shap'd strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes!
Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine
Of the Orthyan Goddess he bade flog
The little Spartans; such as erst chastised
Our Milton when at College. For this act
Did Brownrigg swing. Harsh laws; but time shall come,
When France shall reign, and laws be all repeal'd!
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111100101 1101010111 10011111 1111010110 101111111 1111010001 1101011111 101011101 1111111 0110011101 1101110011 1101011101 10110111 010111101 10101110111 1101111111 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 765 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 593 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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