Analysis of Oysters

Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)



Charming oysters I cry:
My masters, come buy,
So plump and so fresh,
So sweet is their flesh,
No Colchester oyster
Is sweeter and moister:
Your stomach they settle,
And rouse up your mettle:
They'll make you a dad
Of a lass or a lad;
And madam your wife
They'll please to the life;
Be she barren, be she old,
Be she slut, or be she scold,
Eat my oysters, and lie near her,
She'll be fruitful, never fear her.


Scheme AABBCADDEEFFGGCC
Poetic Form
Metre 101011 11011 11011 11111 1110 11001 110110 011110 11101 101101 01011 11101 1110111 1111111 11100110 11101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 401
Words 82
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 308
Words per stanza (avg) 80
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. more…

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