Analysis of The Waster Singing at Midnight
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Loud he sang the song Ta Phershon
For his personal diversion,
Sang the chorus U-pi-dee,
Sang about the Barley Bree.
In that hour when all is quiet
Sang he songs of noise and riot,
In a voice so loud and queer
That I wakened up to hear.
Songs that distantly resembled
Those one hears from men assembled
In the old Cross Keys Hotel,
Only sung not half so well.
For the time of this ecstatic
Amateur was most erratic,
And he only hit the key
Once in every melody.
If "he wot prigs wot isn't his'n
Ven he's cotched is sent to prison,"
He who murders sleep might well
Adorn a solitary cell.
But, if no obliging peeler
Will arrest this midnight squealer,
My own peculiar arm of might
Must undertake the job to-night.
Scheme | AABB CCDX EEFF GGBB AAFF XDHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1110111 11100010 1010111 1010101 011011110 11111010 0011101 111111 111010 11111010 0011101 1011111 10111010 1011010 0110101 10100100 111111011 11111110 1110111 0101001 11101010 101111 11010111 1100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 711 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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