Analysis of Epitaph on Dr. Jenner
Frederick George Scott 1861 (Montreal, Quebec) – 1944 (Quebec City, Quebec)
IN sterner fight than Waterloo
He saved his hapless brothers;
Not by his own arm, it is true,
But by the arms of others.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0101110 1111010 11111111 1101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 133 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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