Analysis of Give Me Leave to Rail at You
Lord John Wilmot 1647 (Ditchley, Oxfordshire) – 1680 (Woodstock, Oxfordshire)
Give me leave to rail at you, -
I ask nothing but my due:
To call you false, and then to say
You shall not keep my heart a day.
But alas! against my will
I must be your captive still.
Ah! be kinder, then, for I
Cannot change, and would not die.
Kindness has resistless charms;
All besides but weakly move;
Fiercest anger it disarms,
And clips the wings of flying love.
Beauty does the heart invade,
Kindness only can persuade;
It gilds the lover's servile chain,
And makes the slave grow pleased again.
| Scheme | AABBCCDD XXBXEEXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 1110111 11110111 11111101 1010111 1111101 1110111 1010111 10111 1011101 101011 01011101 1010101 1010101 11010101 01011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 495 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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