Analysis of On Himself
Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)
ON RAINY days alone I dine
Upon a chick and pint of wine.
On rainy days I dine alone
And pick my chicken to the bone;
But this my servants much enrages,
No scraps remain to save board-wages.
In weather fine I nothing spend,
But often spunge upon a friend;
Yet, where he’s not so rich as I,
I pay my club, and so good-bye.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11010111 01010111 11011101 01110101 111101010 110111110 01011101 11010101 11111111 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 331 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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