Analysis of A Mock Song



I.
    Now Whitehall's in the grave,
    And our head is our slave,
The bright pearl in his close shell of oyster;
    Now the miter is lost,
    The proud Praelates, too, crost,
And all Rome's confin'd to a cloister.
    He, that Tarquin was styl'd,
      Our white land's exil'd,
        Yea, undefil'd;
Not a court ape's left to confute us;
    Then let your voyces rise high,
      As your colours did flye,
        And flour'shing cry:
Long live the brave Oliver-Brutus.

II.
    Now the sun is unarm'd,
    And the moon by us charm'd,
All the stars dissolv'd to a jelly;
    Now the thighs of the Crown
    And the arms are lopp'd down,
And the body is all but a belly.
    Let the Commons go on,
      The town is our own,
        We'l rule alone:
For the Knights have yielded their spent-gorge;
    And an order is tane
      With HONY SOIT profane,
        Shout forth amain:
For our Dragon hath vanquish'd the St. George.


Scheme ABBCDDCEEDFAAAF AGGHIIHXJJKIXIK
Poetic Form Etheree  (27%)
Tetractys  (23%)
Metre 1 11001 01011101 0110111110 101011 01111 011011010 11111 10111 11 10111111 111111 11111 01011 110110010 1 101101 001111 101011010 101101 001111 0010111010 101011 011101 11101 101110111 011011 11101 111 11010110011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 928
Words 157
Sentences 8
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 15, 15
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 311
Words per stanza (avg) 78
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Richard Lovelace

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