Analysis of Ghoul Care

Ralph Hodgson 1871 (Darlington) – 1962



Sour fiend, go home and tell the Pit
For once you met your master, -
A man who carried in his soul
Three charms against disaster,
The Devil and disaster.
Away, away, and tell the tale
And start your whelps a-whining,
Say 'In the greenwood of his soul
A lizard's eye was shining,
A little eye kept shining.'
Away, away, and salve your sores,
And set your hags a-groaning,
Say 'In the greenwood of his soul
A drowsy bee was droning,
A dreamy bee was droning.'
Prodigious Bat! Go start the walls
Of Hell with horror ringing.
Say 'In the greenwood of his soul
There was a goldfinch singing,
A pretty goldfinch singing.'
And then come back, come, if you please,
A fiercer ghoul and ghaster,
With all the glooms and smuts of Hell
Behind you, I'm you master!
You know I'm still your master.


Scheme abcbbdeCeefeCeegeCeehbibb
Poetic Form
Metre 101110101 1111110 01110011 1101010 0100010 01010101 0111010 1001111 0101110 0101110 01010111 0111010 1001111 0101110 0101110 01011101 1111010 1001111 110110 010110 01111111 010101 11010111 0111110 1111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 791
Words 150
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 601
Words per stanza (avg) 145
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson, Order of the Rising Sun,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. more…

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