A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: George Gissing
When I admit neglect of Gissing,They say I don’t know what I’m missing.Until their arguments are subtler,I think I’ll stick to Samuel Butler.
About this text
A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: George Gissing is in the public domain. This text is taken from Sunset Gun: Poems (Boni & Liveright, 1928), English Wikisource; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Dorothy Parker, A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: George Gissing, in Sunset Gun (1928), text of English Wikisource, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/parker-sunset-gun/pigs-eye-george-gissing.html, id L27430.
Form and metre
A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: George Gissing is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets.
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Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 AABB gissingA · missingA · subtlerB · butlerB
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| When I admit neglect of Gissing, | 9 | ··˘/˘/··· |
| They say I don’t know what I’m missing. | 9 | ·······/˘ |
| Until their arguments are subtler, | 9 | ···/˘·/˘˘ |
| I think I’ll stick to Samuel Butler. | 9 | ·····/˘/˘ |
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