Analysis of Quintetto
Thomas Love Peacock 1785 (Weymouth, Dorset) – 1866
[To the tune of "Turning, turning, turning, as wheel goes round."]
RECITATIVE. MR. PAPERSTAMP:
Jack Horner's CHRISTMAS PIE my learned nurse
Interpreted to mean the public purse.
From thence a plum he drew. O happy Horner!
Who would not be ensconced in thy snug corner
While round the public board all eagerly we linger,
for what we can get we will try, try, try:
And we'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have a finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
By my own poetic laws, I'm a dealer in applause
For those who don't deserve it, but will buy, buy
So round the court I linger, and thus I get a finget
A finger, finger, finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
And we'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have a finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
My share of pie to win, I will dash through thick and thin
And philosophy and liberty shall fly, fly, fly:
And truth and taste shall know, that their eve Iasting foe
Has a finger, finger, finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
And we'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have a finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
I'll make my verses rattle with the din of war and battle,
For war doth increase sa-la-ry, ry, ry:
And I'll shake the public ears with the triumph of Algiers,
And thus I ll get a finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
And we'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have a finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
And while you thrive by ranting, I'll try my luck at canting,
And scribble verse and prose all so dry, dry, dry:
And Mystic's patent smoke public intellect shall choke,
Arld we ll all have a finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
We'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have a finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
MR. ANYSIDE ANTIJACK:
My tailor is so clever, that my coat will turn for ever,
And take any colour you can dye, dye, dye:
For all my earthly wishes are among the loaves and fishes,
And to have my little finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
And we'll all have a finger, a finger, a finger,
We'll all have a finger in the CHRISTMAS PIE.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111010101111 1101 11101111 0100110101 11011111010 11110101110 1101011100110 1111111111 0111010010010 11101000101 11101011010001 11110111111 1101110011101 010101000101 0111010010010 11101000101 1111111111101 0010001001111 01011111111 1010101000101 0111010010010 11101000101 111101010111010 1110111111 01101011010101 0111101000101 0111010010010 11101000101 0111110111111 01010111111 01101101011 1111101000101 111010010010 11101000101 1011 110111011111110 0110111111 111101010101010 0111101000101 0111010010010 11101000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 2,116 |
Words | 408 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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