Analysis of Brother And Sister

Lewis Carroll 1832 (Daresbury) – 1898 (Guildford)



"SISTER, sister, go to bed!
Go and rest your weary head."
Thus the prudent brother said.

"Do you want a battered hide,
Or scratches to your face applied?"
Thus his sister calm replied.

"Sister, do not raise my wrath.
I'd make you into mutton broth
As easily as kill a moth"

The sister raised her beaming eye
And looked on him indignantly
And sternly answered, "Only try!"

Off to the cook he quickly ran.
"Dear Cook, please lend a frying-pan
To me as quickly as you can."

And wherefore should I lend it you?"
"The reason, Cook, is plain to view.
I wish to make an Irish stew."

"What meat is in that stew to go?"
"My sister'll be the contents!"
"Oh"
"You'll lend the pan to me, Cook?"
"No!"

Moral: Never stew your sister.


Scheme AAA BBB XCC DXD EEE FFF GXGXG X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010111 1011101 1010101 1110101 11011101 1110101 1011111 11101101 11001101 01010101 01110100 01010101 11011101 11110101 11110111 0111111 01011111 11111101 11101111 111010 1 1101111 1 10101110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 727
Words 147
Sentences 18
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 1
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. more…

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