This is an analysis of Toland’s Invitation To Dismal To Dine With The Calve’s Head Club by Jonathan Swift.
If, dearest Dismal, you for once can dine
Upon a single dish, and tavern wine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeffbbgghhcciiccffggbbiiccddhhjjffbbdd
- Stanza lengths: 46,
- Metre: 0101011111 0101011101 1001010101 0101101101 0101110101 11010101110 0101110101 1111010011 1111011101 1111010101 0111010101 0101110101 1101011101 1101000101 1100110111 1111110101 1110011101 1101010111 1111100101 1111010101 1101111001 1111110111 1111011101 1011010100 100011110101 1101010111 1100011101 1011011101 01010010111 1101110001 1101011101 1011010111 1001011101 01110111001 1001010101 0101110111 11111110011 1101001101 1110010111 1111010101 0101111101 11101101101 1111110101 1010101111 1101111111 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
and, you
Anaphora
the
