Analysis of How To Ask And Have
Samuel Lover 1797 – 1868
"Oh, 'tis time I should talk to your mother,
Sweet Mary," says I;
"Oh, don't talk to my mother," says Mary,
Beginning to cry:
"For my mother says men are decaivers,
And never, I know, will consent;
She says girls in a hurry to marry,
At leisure repent."
"Then, suppose I should talk to your father,
Sweet Mary," says I;
"Oh, don't talk to my father," says Mary,
Beginning to cry:
"For my father he loves me so dearly,
He'll never consent I should go;
If you talk to my father," says Mary,
"He'll surely say 'No.'"
"Then how shall I get you, my jewel,
Sweet Mary?" says I;
"If your father and mother's so cruel,
Most surely I'll die!"
"Oh, never say die, dear," says Mary;
"A way now to save you I see:
Since my parents are both so conthrairy,
You'd better ask me."
Scheme | aBcBxdcd aBcBcece fBfbccac |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111110 11011 1111110110 01011 11101111 01011101 1110010110 11001 1011111110 11011 1111110110 01011 1110111110 11001111 1111110110 11011 111111110 11011 1110010110 11011 110111110 01111111 11101111 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 747 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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