Analysis of Verses Found In A Summerhouse At Hales-Owen
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
When Dryden's fool, 'unknowing what he sought,'
His hours in whistling spent, 'for want of thought,'
This guiltless oaf his vacancy of sense
Supplied, and amply too, by innocence
Did modern swains, possess'd of Cymon's powers,
In Cymon's manner waste their leisure hours,
Th' offended guests would not, with blushing, see
These fair green walks disgraced by infamy.
Severe the fate of modern fools, alas!
When vice and folly mark them as they pass.
Like noxious reptiles o'er the whiten'd wall,
The filth they leave still points out where they crawl.
Scheme | AAXXBBCCD DEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010111 11001011111 1101110011 0101011100 1101011110 0110111010 110101111101 1111011100 0101110101 1101011111 1101010011 0111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 3 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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