Analysis of Dialogue

Major Henry Livingston Jr. 1748 (Poughkeepsie, Province of New York) – 1828 (Poughkeepsie, New York)



Pray dearest mother if you please
Cut up your double-curded cheese,
The oldest of the brotherhood.
It's ripe, no doubt and nicely good!
Your reputation will rise treble
As we the lucious morsel nibble.
Praise will flow from each partaker
Both on the morsel and the maker!  

Your suit is vain,--upon my word,
You taste not yet my double-curd;
I know the hour,--the very minute
In which I'll plunge my cutteau in it;
Am I to learn of witless bairns
How I must manage my concerns?
As yet the fervid dog-star reigns
And gloomy Virgo holds the reigns.
Be quiet chicks, sedate and sober
And house your stomachs till October;
Then for a feast! Upon my word,
I'll really cut my double curd.


Scheme AABBCCDD EEXXAXFFDDEE
Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11010111 1111011 0101010 11110101 10101110 11011010 111111 110100010 11110111 11111101 1101001010 01111101 11111101 11110101 11010111 01010101 110101010 011101010 11010111 11011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 685
Words 129
Sentences 9
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 12
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 265
Words per stanza (avg) 62
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Major Henry Livingston Jr.

Henry Beekman Livingston Jr. has been proposed as being the uncredited author of the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, more popularly known (after its first line) as The Night Before Christmas. more…

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