A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron
Byron and Shelley and KeatsWere a trio of lyrical treats.The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls,And Keats never was a descendant of earls,And Byron walked out with a number of girls,But it didn’t impair the poetical featsOf Byron and Shelley,Of Byron and Shelley,Of Byron and Shelley and Keats.
Words in this poem
- trio n.
- Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united. [It., fr. L. tres, tria, three: cf. F. trio, from the Italian. See Three.]
- lyrical a.
- Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. [L. lyricus, Gr. lyrique. See Lyre.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron 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: The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, in Sunset Gun (1928), text of English Wikisource, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/parker-sunset-gun/pigs-eye-keats-shelley-byron.html, id L27422.
Form and metre
A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron is 9 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 67% of the lines.
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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 AABBBACCA keatsA · treatsA · curlsB · earlsB · girlsB · featsA · shelleyC · shelleyC · keatsA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Byron and Shelley and Keats | 7 | /˘·/˘·· |
| Were a trio of lyrical treats. | 8 | ··/··/˘· |
| The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls, | 11 | ·/˘·/˘·/˘·· |
| And Keats never was a descendant of earls, | 10 | ··/··˘/˘·· |
| And Byron walked out with a number of girls, | 11 | ·/˘····/˘·· |
| But it didn’t impair the poetical feats | 11 | ··/˘˘/····· |
| Of Byron and Shelley, | 6 | ·/˘·/˘ |
| Of Byron and Shelley, | 6 | ·/˘·/˘ |
| Of Byron and Shelley and Keats. | 8 | ·/˘·/˘·· |
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