Analysis of The Prayse Of The Needle
John Taylor 1578 (Gloucester) – 1653
To all dispersed sorts of arts and trades
I write the needles prayse (that never fades).
So long as children shall be got or borne,
So long as garments shall be made or worne,
So long as hemp or flax, or sheep shall bear
Their linen woolen fleeces yeare by yeare,
So long as silk-wormes, with exhausted spoile,
Of their own entrails for man's gaine shall toyle,
Yea till the world be quite dissolv'd and past,
So long at least, the needles' use shall last.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111101 1101011101 1111011111 1111011111 1111111111 1101010111 1111110101 1111011111 1101110101 1111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 462 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 355 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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