Possible Clues:

• Support with backing - quote opening of Hamlet - such was his soul
• Copper hit out, as foretold?
• Like a successful seer
• Like Jeremiah
• Forecasting
• Portentous support he half ticked off
• Having the foresight to make the poet chirp
• Oracular, predicting events
• Drunk hit copper, knowing what would happen later
• Seeing what's going to happen, pitch rope wildly