Analysis of Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy
Lewis Carroll 1832 (Daresbury) – 1898 (Guildford)
And with that she
began nursing her child again, singing a sort of
lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a vio
lent shake at the end of every line: -- --
"Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes;
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases."CHORUS
(in which the cook and the baby joined): -- -- "Wow! wow! wow!"While the Duchess sang the second verse of
the song, she kept tossing the baby violently up
and down, and the poor little thing howled so,
that Alice could hardly hear the words: -- --
"I speak severely to my boy,
I beat him when he sneezes;
For he can thoroughly enjoy
The pepper when he pleases!" CHORUS"Wow! wow! wow!"
Scheme | ABBCDEDEBFGHDEDI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 0110010110011 10111111010101 1110111001 11011101 0111110 11011101 011111 010100101111010101011 01111001010001 0100110111 110110101 11010111 1111110 11110001 0101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 688 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 497 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 130 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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