Tippling
Like a chafed bear, grim and growling,Mister Dozey!Oft you curse the mulberry pimplesOn your nosey!But your cursings, your complainings,Mister Dozey!Won't uproot the mulberry pimplesOn your nosey!Sir! the fault is yours entirely,Mister Dozey!If the mulberry pimples thickenOn your nosey!For if you will tipple, tipple,Mister Dozey!Mulberry pimples can't but thickenOn your nosey!
Words in this poem
- mister n.
- A trade, art, or occupation. [OF. mistier trade, office, ministry, need, F. métier trade, fr. L. ministerium service, office, ministry. See Ministry, Mystery trade.]
- uproot v. t.
- To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Tippling is in the public domain. This text is taken from Translations from Alexander Petofi, the Magyar Poet, by Sir John Bowring (London: Trübner & Co., 1866), Internet Archive, the John Bowring translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Sándor Petőfi, Tippling, in Translations from Alexander Petofi, the Magyar Poet (1866), text of Internet Archive, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/petofi-poems-bowring/tippling.html, id L29799.
Form and metre
Tippling is 16 lines in a single stanza. The metre is trochaic dimeter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 87%).
See other poems in trochaic dimeter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
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 -ABC-ABC-ADC-ADC growling · dozeyA · pimplesB · noseyC · complainings · dozeyA · pimplesB · noseyC · entirely · dozeyA · thickenD · noseyC · tipple · dozeyA · thickenD · noseyC
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. Read against trochaic dimeter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Like a chafed bear, grim and growling, | 8 | ······/˘ |
| Mister Dozey! | 4 | /˘·· |
| Oft you curse the mulberry pimples | 9 | ····/·˘/˘ |
| On your nosey! | 4 | ···· |
| But your cursings, your complainings, | 8 | ··/˘·˘/˘ |
| Mister Dozey! | 4 | /˘·· |
| Won't uproot the mulberry pimples | 9 | ·˘/·/·˘/˘ |
| On your nosey! | 4 | ···· |
| Sir! the fault is yours entirely, | 9 | ·····˘/˘˘ |
| Mister Dozey! | 4 | /˘·· |
| If the mulberry pimples thicken | 9 | ··/·˘/˘/˘ |
| On your nosey! | 4 | ···· |
| For if you will tipple, tipple, | 8 | ····/˘/˘ |
| Mister Dozey! | 4 | /˘·· |
| Mulberry pimples can't but thicken | 9 | /·˘/˘··/˘ |
| On your nosey! | 4 | ···· |
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