Analysis of To A Gentleman

Mary Barber 1685 – 1755



I hope, Sir, by this you have found your Account,
In visiting Airy, and seeing his Mount:
If Froth can delight you, you're wonderous happy;
And we know it gives Joy on a Bottle of Nappy.
Your Friend would be very much mended, in troth,
Should Airy bestow him a Dash of his Froth:
To keep up the Metaphor, 'twould make him mellow,
And of a sour Stoic, a pleasant young Fellow;
And Airy be recompens'd well for that Favour,
If your Friend, in Return, should make him grow graver.
This Exchange should they make, it would set 'em both right;
Since one is too solid, and t'other too light.


Scheme AABBCDEEFFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111101 01001001011 1110111110 011111101011 11111011001 11001101111 111010011110 0101010010110 010111111 111001111110 101111111111 111110011011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 582
Words 112
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 448
Words per stanza (avg) 110
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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