Analysis of Two Gossips
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant 1864 (Bridgwater, Somerset) – 1902 (Pretoria)
One fox-faced virgin, word for word,
Repeats each sland'rous thing she's heard,
And sourly smiles as scandal slips
With gusto from her thin white lips.
She's bad enough! but list a minute.
Beside her mate she isn't in it.
This latter lady, 'pon my word,
Repeats things . . . . she has never heard.
| Scheme | AABB XXAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | ~Rispetto |
| Metre | 11110111 0111111 0111101 1110111 110111010 010111001 11010111 01111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 306 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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