Analysis of The Late Monarch Lies in St Giles
Douglas Glendinning 1957 (The Borders)
The Queen is deed.
May she rest her heed, in peace.
The new King and his brazen strumpet crumpet came here on a plane.
He hung aboot abit, talked some shit, and went away again.
Delight for the purists.
A bonus for the tourists.
And a reminder that nothing else has changed.
| Scheme | XX XX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 1110101 01101101111101 1111111010101 011010 0101010 00010110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 277 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
Observations on the events in Edinburgh 12/09/2022. In dialect.
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Written on September 12, 2022
Submitted by douglasglendinning on September 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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