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.
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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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