Analysis of Caius Rubrius Urbanus Romae In Domo Lud: Matthæi. E Grutero
Thomas Parnell 1679 (Dublin) – 1718
The Father lying in Bed hugging in his left arm a pot of Mony & laying severall pieces out of it before him. the son sitts at his feet in the habit of a souldier taking with his right hand some pieces that drop. A three footstool stands near him on which three other pots: this written.
The Man who livd with avaritious care
Who starvd the growing virtues of his heir
Who bound to slav'ry by the vice he chose
Coud envy to himself his own respose
Woud have his latest image here exprest
Thus lolling on ye Genial bed of rest
That since with death his long vexations cease
His Stone might speak him with an air of peace
Beneath his feet the son a Souldier leans
Compelld by want to warr in forreign plains
There fell the Youth by deaths unerring dart
& with fresh sorrows broke ye misers heart
Here both seem pleasd but what avails ye sight
No Picturd kindness gives ye dead delight
The Father Never thus supplyd the son
But thus to bless them both he shoud have don
Scheme | A BBCCDDEEXXDDDDAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010011001110111010110111011011111001010110111111011011111111101110 0111111 1101010111 111110111 110101111 111101011 1101110111 11111111 1111111111 011101011 11111011 11011111 111011101 111111111 111011101 010101101 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 958 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 16 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 387 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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