Analysis of Corn Medicine
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant 1864 (Bridgwater, Somerset) – 1902 (Pretoria)
'A well-bred horse! but he won't get fat,
Though I've done the best 1 can;
He keeps as poor as a blessed rat!'
Said the sorrowful stable-man.
'I've bled and I've blistered him-and to-day
I bought him a monster ball;
But, blow the horse! let me do what 1 may,
He won't get fat at all.
'I've given him medicines galore,
And linseed oil and bran,
And yet the brute looks awfully poor,'
Said the woebegone stable-man.
One glance the intelligent stranger threw
At the ribs of the hollow weed,
Then asked, with an innocent air, 'Did you
Forget to give him a feed?'
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD XBXB EFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 011111111 111011 11111011 10100101 1101101011 1110101 110111111 111111 110110001 01101 01011101 1010101 1100100101 10110101 1111100111 0111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 576 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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