I sing a woeful ditty
- DMI number:
- 4736
- First Line:
- I sing a woeful ditty
- Last Line:
- How the bullets would whistle the cannons would roar
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lampoon, Satire, and Sestet ababcc
- Themes:
- Politics, Sex and bawdy humour, Sex / relations between the sexes, and The monarchy (heads of state)[Charles II]
- Author:
- Andrew Marvell
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Listed as 'Poems of Uncertain Attribution' in Smith (2007): 462.
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. III] [T144915]
- Page No(s):
- pp.68-70
- Poem Title:
- A ballad, call'd the Hay-market Hectors
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [Vol. III] [T144918]
- Page No(s):
- pp.60-62
- Poem Title:
- A Ballad, call'd, The Haymarket Hectors.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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