Analysis of On The Hoop
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
The hoop, the darling justly of the fair,
Of every generous swain deserves the care.
It is unmanly to desert the weak,
'Twould urge a stone, if possible, to speak;
To hear stanch hypocrites bawl out and cry,
'This hoop's a whorish garb, fie! ladies, fie!'
O cruel and audacious men, to blast
The fame of ladies more than vestals chaste;
Should you go search the globe throughout,
None will you find so pious and devout;
So modest, chaste, so handsome, and so fair,
As our dear Caledonian ladies are.
When awful beauty puts on all her charms,
Nought gives our sex such terrible alarms,
As when the hoop and tartan both combine
To make a virgin like a goddess shine.
Let quakers cut their clothes unto the quick,
And with severities themselves afflict;
But may the hoop adorn Edina's streets,
Till the south pole shall with the northern meet.
Scheme | AABBCDEFGGAHIIJJKLMN |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0101010101 110010010101 11111001 1101110011 111101101 110111101 1100010111 011101111 11110101 1111110001 1101110011 11010100101 1101011101 11101110001 1101010110 1101010101 1101111001 0110101 11010111 1011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 831 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 658 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 150 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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