Analysis of Discontent And Quarrelling
Charles Lamb 1775 (Inner Temple, London) – 1834 (Edmonton, London)
JANE.
Miss Lydia every day is drest
Better than I am in my best
White cambric-muslin frock.
I wish I had one made of clear
Worked lawn, or leno very dear.-
And then my heart is broke
Almost to think how cheap my doll
Was bought, when hers cost-yes, cost full
A pound, it did, my brother;
Nor has she had it weeks quite five,
Yet, 'tis as true as I'm alive,
She's soon to have another.
ROBERT.
O mother, hear my sister Jane,
How foolishly she does complain,
And tease herself for nought.
But 'tis the way of all her sex,
Thus foolishly themselves to vex.
Envy's a female fault.
JANE.
O brother Robert, say not so;
It is not very long ago,
Ah! brother, you've forgot,
When speaking of a boy you knew,
Remember how you said that you
Envied his happy lot.
ROBERT.
Let's see, what were the words I spoke?
Why, may be I was half in joke-
May be I just might say-
Besides that was not half so bad;
For, Jane, I only said he had
More time than I to play.
JANE.
O may be, may be, very well:
And may be, brother, I don't tell
Tales to mamma like you.
MOTHER.
O cease your wrangling, cease, my dears;
You would not wake a mother's fears
Thus, if you better knew.
Scheme | Abbxccd xxeffe Baabggb Ahhbiib Bddjbbj Akki egxi |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1100100111 10111011 11101 11111111 11110101 011111 1111111 11101111 0111110 11111111 11111101 1111010 10 11011101 11001101 010111 11011101 11000111 1011 1 11010111 11110101 110101 11010111 01011111 101101 10 11100111 11111101 111111 01111111 11110111 111111 1 11111101 01110111 111011 10 111100111 11110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,118 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 7, 7, 7, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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