Analysis of Good Night to the Season
Winthrop Mackworth Praed 1802 – 1839
Good-night to the Season!—the rages
Led off by the chiefs of the throng,
The Lady Matilda's new pages,
The Lady Eliza's new song;
Miss Fennel's Macaw, which at Boodle's
Is held to have something to say;
Mrs. Splenetic's musical Poodles,
Which bark 'Batti, batti!' all day.
. . .
Good-night to the Season!—another
Will come with its trifles and toys,
And hurry away, like its brother,
In sunshine, and odour, and noise.
Will it come with a rose or a briar?
Will it come with a blessing or curse?
Will its bonnets be lower or higher?
Will its morals be better or worse?
Will it find me grown thinner or fatter,
Or fonder of wrong or of right,
Or married, or buried?—no matter,
Good-night to the Season, Good-night!
Scheme | ABCBADED FGFGFHFHFIFI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010010 11101101 0101110 010111 1101111 11111011 10110010 111111 1 111010010 11111001 010011110 010101 1111011010 111101011 111110110 111011011 1111110110 11011111 110110110 11101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 706 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 539 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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