Analysis of Ang-Bang-Pang.
David Rorie 1867 – 1946
O hae ye heard the latest news
O' Mistress Mucklewame?
Her doctor hadna pickit up
Her trouble here at hame,
Sae they took her tae a speeshalist
To fin' oot what was wrang,
An' it seems noo a' the bother
Has been ang-bang-pang.
Faith, in the marriage market then
Her man's had little luck,
She's just a muckle creishy lump
That waddles like a juck;
But the nerves gaun through her body's
Been the trouble a' alang,
An' its complicated noo, ye see,
By ang-bang-pang.
I've aye held oot oor doctor
Was a skeely man afore,
But I'll never lat the cratur noo
A stap inside the door!
A' up an' doon the parish
It has made a bonny sang,
That he didna ken his neebor's wife
Had ang-bang-pang.
They've pit her in hot water baths
To lat the body steep,
They're feedin' her on tablets
Frae the puddens o' a sheep,
They're talkin' o' a foreign spaw
Upon the continang,
They think they'll maybe cure her there
O' ang-bang-pang.
There's mony ways o' deein' that
Oor faithers didna ken,
For ae way foond in "Buchan," noo
The doctors gie us ten;
But I hope to a' the Pooers abune
Auld Death may be owre thrang
To come an' smoor my vital spark
Wi' ang-bang-pang.
Scheme | XAXABCDC ECXCXCXC DDEXXCXC XFXFXCXC BEEEECCC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 11110101 1101 010111 010111 1110101 111111 11110010 11111 10010101 011101 1101011 11101 10111010 101001 11100111 1111 1111110 10111 11101011 010101 0111010 1110101 1111111 1111 11001101 110101 110110 101101 11010101 0101 11110101 1111 1101111 1111 11110101 010111 11110011 111111 11111101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,116 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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