Analysis of The Reverend Dr. L---.

Mary Barber 1685 – 1755



In vain you shew a happy Nation,
The Gospel's gracious Dispensation;
And plead from thence, to bring up Youth
To early Piety and Truth.
To unattentive Ears you preach,
What Miseries alone can teach.

'Tis said, Hibernia boasts a Flood,
Famous for petrefying Wood:
Tunbridge, thy Min'ral Streams, we know,
A stranger Transformation show:
Their dire Effects the Wretched feel:
Thy Waters turn the Heart to Steel.


Scheme AABBCC XXDDEE
Poetic Form
Metre 011101010 0110010 01111111 11010001 11111 11000111 11100101 10111 111111 0100101 11010101 11010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 406
Words 69
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 163
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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