Analysis of The Voice of the Lobster
Lewis Carroll 1832 (Daresbury) – 1898 (Guildford)
''Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare
'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.'
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.'
'I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
How the Owl and the Panter were sharing a pie:
The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
While the Old had the dish as its share of the treat.
When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:
While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
And concluded the banquet by [eating the owl.]
Scheme | AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101011101 111111111011 10111111111 111011001111 101111111101 011001001101 11011001101 11101001001 11111001111 101001001001 01011101001 101101111101 101111001101 11001011001 101001101101 00100101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 790 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 304 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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