Analysis of Mona Lisa

John Kendrick Bangs 1862 ( Yonkers) – 1922 ( Atlantic City)



Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa!
Have you gone? Great Julius Caesar!
Who's the Chap so bold and pinchey
Thus to swipe the great da Vinci,
Taking France's first Chef d'oeuvre
Squarely from old Mr. Louvre,
Easy as some pocket-picker
Would remove our handkerchicker
As we ride in careless folly
On some gaily bounding trolley?

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa,
Who's your Captor? Doubtless he's a
Crafty sort of treasure-seeker,
Ne'er a Turpin e'er was sleeker,
But, alas, if he can win you
Easily as I could chin you,
What is safe in all the nations
From his dreadful depredations?
He's the style of Chap, I'm thinkin',
Who will drive us all to drinkin'!

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa,
Next he'll swipe the Tower of Pisa,
Pulling it from out its socket
For to hide it in his pocket;
Or perhaps he'll up and steal, O,
Madame Venus, late of Milo;
Or maybe while on the grab he
Will annex Westminster Abbey,
And elope with that distinguished
Heap of Ashes long extinguished.

Maybe too, O Mona Lisa,
He will come across the seas a,
Searching for the style of treasure
That we have in richest measure.
Sunset Cox's brazen statue,
Have a care lest he shall catch you!
Or maybe he'll set his eye on
Hammerstein's, or the Flatiron,
Or some bit of White Wash done
By those lads at Washington,

Truly he's a crafty geezer,
Is your Captor, Mona Lisa!


Scheme Abxcxabbcc Aabbddeeff Aagghhccii aabbddxfjj ba
Poetic Form
Metre 10101010 11111010 1011101 11101110 1010111 10111010 10111010 101101 11101010 11101010 10101010 11101010 10111010 101010110 10111111 10011111 11101010 1110010 10111110 1111111 10101010 111010110 10111110 11110110 10111011 10101110 11011011 111010 00111010 11101010 10111010 11101010 10101110 11101010 110101 10111111 11011111 10101 1111111 1111100 1010101 11101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,275
Words 241
Sentences 12
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 10, 10, 10, 10, 2
Lines Amount 42
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 201
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:16 min read
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John Kendrick Bangs

John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. more…

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