Analysis of Upon The Whipping Of The Top
John Bunyan 1628 (Elstow, Bedfordshire) – 1688 (London)
Tis with the whip the boy sets up the top,
The whip makes it run round upon its toe;
The whip makes it hither and thither hop:
'Tis with the whip the top is made to go.
Our legalist is like unto this top,
Without a whip he doth not duty do;
Let Moses whip him, he will skip and hop;
Forbear to whip, he'll neither stand nor go.
| Scheme | ABAB AXAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1101011101 0111110111 011110011 1101011111 101111011 0101111101 1101111101 111110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 339 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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