Analysis of Girl Graduates
William Schwenck Gilbert 1836 – 1911
They intend to send a wire
To the moon;
And they'll set the Thames on fire
Very soon;
Then they learn to make silk purses
With their rigs
From the ears of LADY CIRCE'S
Piggy-wigs.
And weasels at their slumbers
They'll trepan;
To get sunbeams from cuCUMbers
They've a plan.
They've a firmly rooted notion
They can cross the Polar Ocean,
And they'll find Perpetual Motion
If they can!
These are the phenomena
That every pretty domina
Hopes that we shall see
At this Universitee!
As for fashion, they forswear it,
So they say,
And the circle - they will square it
Some fine day;
Then the little pigs they're teaching
For to fly;
And the niggers they'll be bleaching
By-and-by!
Each newly joined aspirant
To the clan
Must repudiate the tyrant
Known as Man;
They mock at him and flout him,
For they do not care about him,
And they're "going to do without him"
If they can!
These are the phenomena
That every pretty domina
Hopes that we shall see
At this Universitee!
Scheme | ababcdcdcbxefffE GGHI ixiijkjkieielllE GGHI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 10111010 101 01101110 101 11111110 111 1011101 101 010111 11 1111100 101 10101010 11101010 011010010 111 1100100 110010010 11111 111 11101011 111 00101111 111 10101110 111 00101110 101 1101100 101 1010010 111 1111011 11111011 011011011 111 1100100 110010010 11111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 930 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 4, 16, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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