by Keats · Cluster: Joy · Animals · Comic Verse Song
Abstract
A playful nonsense-verse jingle from a letter to his sister, built on the refrain ‘two or three’ and ending self-referentially on hatching sonnets; light comic song.
Connections
Motifs: Flowers Themes & Concepts: Artist and Society Forms & Genres: Comic Verse Song, Lyric, Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
From a Letter to His Sister
Two or three posies
With two or three simples -
Two or three noses
With two or three pimples -
Two or three wise men
And two or three ninny’s -
Two or three purses
And two or three guineas -
Two or three raps
At two or three doors - 10
Two or three naps
Of two or three hours -
Two or three cats
And two or three mice
Two or three sprats
At a very great price -
Two or three sandies
And two or three tabbies -
Two or three dandies
And two Mrs — mum! 20
Two or three smiles
And two or three frowns -
Two or three miles
To two or three towns -
Two or three pegs
For two or three bonnets -
Two or three dove eggs
To hatch into sonnets.