Analysis of The Argument
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Said Jock McBrown to Tam McSmith,
"A little bet I'm game to take on,
That I can scotch this Shakespeare myth
And prove Will just a stoodge for Bacon."
Said Tam McSmith to Jock McBrown,
"Ye gyke, I canna let ye rave on.
See here, I put a shilling down:
My betting's on the Bard of Avon."
Said Jock McBrown to Tam McSmith,
"Come on, ye'll pay a braw wee dramlet;
Bacon's my bet - the proof herewith . . .
He called his greatest hero - HAMlet."
Scheme | Abax bbxb Acac |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 111111 010111111 1111111 011101110 111111 11111111 11110101 11101110 111111 11110111 10110111 111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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