Analysis of The Methodist
Thomas Chatterton 1752 (Bristol) – 1770 (Holborn)
Says Tom to Jack, 'tis very odd,
These representatives of God,
In color, way of life and evil,
Should be so very like the devil.
Jack, understand, was one of those,
Who mould religion in the rose,
A red hot methodist; his face
Was full of puritanic grace,
His loose lank hair, his slow gradation,
Declared a late regeneration;
Among the daughters long renown'd,
For standing upon holy ground;
Never in carnal battle beat,
Tho' sometimes forced to a retreat.
But C_____t, hero as he is,
Knight of incomparable phiz,
When pliant Doxy seems to yield,
Courageously forsakes the field.
Jack, or to write more gravely, John,
Thro' hills of Wesley's works had gone;
Could sing one hundred hymns by rote;
Hymns which would sanctify the throat;
But some indeed composed so oddly,
You'd swear 'twas bawdy songs made godly.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHCIIJKLLMM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 1010011 010111010 111101010 1011111 11010001 01110011 11111 111111010 010101010 01010101 11001101 10010101 10111001 1110111 11010001 11010111 0100101 11111101 1111111 11110111 11110001 110101110 111101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 820 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 634 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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