Analysis of To Quilca, A Country-House in no very good Repair

Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)



Let me thy Properties explain,
A rotten Cabin, dropping Rain;
Chimnies with Scorn rejecting Smoak;
Stools, Tables, Chairs, and Bed-steds broke:
Here Elements have lost their Vses,
Air ripens not, nor Earth produces:
In vain we make poor Sheelah toil,
Fire will not roast, nor Water boil.
Thro' all the Vallies, Hills, and Plains,
The Goddess Want in Triumph reigns;
And her chief Officers of State,
Sloth, Dirt, and Theft around her wait.


Scheme AABBCCDDCCEE
Poetic Form
Metre 11110001 01010101 1110101 11010111 11001111 11111010 01111101 101111101 1101101 01010101 00110011 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 435
Words 75
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 342
Words per stanza (avg) 73
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. more…

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