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.
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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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