Analysis of The Menu
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
I beg you come to-night and dine.
A welcome waits you, and sound wine--
The Roederer chilly to a charm,
As Juno's breath the claret warm,
The sherry of an ancient brand.
No Persian pomp, you understand--
A soup, a fish, two meats, and then
A salad fit for aldermen
(When alderman, alas, the days!
Were really worth their mayonnaise);
A dish of grapes whose clusters won
Their bronze in Carolinian sun;
Next, cheese--for you the Neufchâtel,
A bit of Cheshire likes me well;
Café au lait or coffee black,
With Kirsch or Kümmel or Cognac
(The German band in Irving Place
By this time purple in the face);
Cigars and pipes. These being through,
Friends shall drop in, a very few--
Shakespeare and Milton, and no more.
When these are guests I bolt the door,
With Not at Home to any one
Excepting Alfred Tennyson.
Scheme | AABCDDEFGGHHIIJJKKLLMMHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 01011011 010010101 1101011 01011101 1101101 01011101 01011100 11000101 0101110 01111101 11001001 1111011 01110111 1111101 1111111 01010101 11110001 01011101 11100101 1010011 11111101 11111101 1010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 619 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 146 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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