Analysis of Verses To John Tupper
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
DEAR Jack
Alack!
A few days back
I bound myself by oath to smack
My lips o'er sloshy tea, and attack
White, brown, or black
Bread, and vile jokes to crack,
This night with brutes whose knack
Would squeeze a pun in Syriac.
And for to—morrow, alack!
I have a model on my track,
So that I may not pack.
Of course I writhe upon the rack:
Though as to NATURE, Jack,
(Poor dear old hack!)
Touching sky, sun, stone, stick, and stack,
I guess I'm half a quack;
For whom ten lines of Browning whack
The whole of the Zodiac.
Nevertheless, alack!
Seeing this time I must send back
To Prince and Baron, Stephens and Jack
(Spec—cadav Rex, hic hæc hoc hac),
And to the Maniac,
The sack.
This much from D.G.R. (in black,
I.e., with coal—ash cloth—of—sack.)
Scheme | AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA |
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Poetic Form | Monorhyme |
Metre | 11 1 0111 1111111 111011001 1111 101111 111111 110101 011101 11010111 111111 11110101 111101 1111 10111101 111101 11111101 011010 0011 10111111 110101001 11111111 01010 01 111101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 27 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 552 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 139 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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