Analysis of Ye Old Mule
David McKee Wright 1869 – 1928
Ye old mule that think yourself so fair,
Leave off with craft your beauty to repair,
For it is true, without any fable,
No man setteth more by riding in your saddle.
Too much travail so do your train appair.
Ye old mule
With false savour though you deceive th'air,
Whoso taste you shall well perceive your lair
Savoureth somewhat of a Kappurs stable.
Ye old mule
Ye must now serve to market and to fair,
All for the burden, for panniers a pair.
For since gray hairs been powdered in your sable,
The thing ye seek for, you must yourself enable
To purchase it by payment and by prayer,
Ye old mule.
Scheme | aabbaCaabCaabbaC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110111 1111110101 1111011010 11111100110 110111111 111 1111101111 111110111 11110110 111 1111110011 110101101 11111100110 011111101010 1101110011 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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