Analysis of A Parody
Charles Lamb 1775 (Inner Temple, London) – 1834 (Edmonton, London)
Lazy-bones, lazy-bones, wake up and peep;
The Cat's in the cupboard, your Mother's asleep.
There you sit snoring, forgetting her ills:
Who is to give her her Bolus and Pills?
Twenty-five Angels must come into Town,
All for to help you to make your new gown-
Dainty aerial Spinsters & Singers:
Aren't you asham'd to employ such white fingers?
Delicate Hands, unaccustom'd to reels,
To set 'em a washing at poor body's wheels?
Why they came down is to me all a riddle,
And left hallelujah broke off in the middle.
Jove's Court & the Presence Angelical cut,
To eke out the work of a lazy young slut.
Angel-duck, angel-duck, wingèd & silly,
Pouring a watering pot over a lily,
Gardener gratuitous, careless of pelf,
Leave her to water her Lily herself,
Or to neglect it to death, if she chuse it;
Remember, the loss is her own if she lose it.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1011011101 01001011001 1111001001 1111001001 1011011011 1111111111 10100110 101011011110 100101011 11101011101 11111111010 01010110010 1101011 11101101011 1011011110 100100110010 10001001011 1011001001 11011111111 010011011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 828 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 640 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 152 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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