Analysis of To my Friend M. Ben Jonson, upon his Catiline
Francis Beaumont 1584 (Grace-Dieu) – 1616 (London)
If thou hadst itch'd after the wild applause
Of common people, and hadst made thy laws
In writing such as catch'd at present voice,
I should commend the thing, but not thy choice.
But thou hast squared thy rules by what is good,
And art three ages yet from understood:
And (I dare say) in it there lies much wit
Lost, till the reader can grow up to it;
Which they can ne'er outgrow, to find it ill,
But must fall back again, or like it still.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111100101 1101001111 0101111101 1101011111 1111111111 011101101 0111011111 1101011111 111111111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 441 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 339 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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