Analysis of Milton
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
with apologies to Lord Tennyson
O swallow-tailed purveyor of college sprees,
O skilled to please the student fraternity,
Most honoured publican of Scotland,
Milton, a name to adorn the Cross Keys;
Whose chosen waiters, Samuel, Archibald,
Helped by the boots and marker at billiards,
Wait, as the smoke-filled, crowded chamber
Rings to the roar of a Gaelic chorus—
Me rather all those temperance hostelries,
The soda siphon fizzily murmuring,
And lime fruit juice and seltzer water
Charm, as a wanderer out in South Street,
Where some recruiting, eager Blue-Ribbonites
Spied me afar and caught by the Post Office,
And crimson-nosed the latest convert
Fastened the odious badge upon me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010011100 11010101101 11110100100 111110 1001101011 110101010 1101010110 110111010 1101101010 110111001 010101100 011101010 1101001011 110101011 11010110110 010101010 1001001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 16 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 277 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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