Analysis of To A Gentleman, Who Had Abus'd Waller.
Mary Barber 1685 – 1755
I grieve to think that Waller's blam'd,
Waller, so long, so justly, fam'd.
Then own your Verses writ in Haste,
Or I shall say, you've lost your Taste.
Perhaps your loyal Heart disdains
A Poet, who could take such Pains,
To tune his sweet, immortal Lays
To an usurping Tyrant's Praise:
And, where you hate the Man, I see,
You never like his Poetry.
The Truth of this your Verse discovers;
So you abus'd the Conscious Lovers.
Tho' in your Principles you glory,
The Muses are nor Whig nor Tory:
So from your Sentence they appeal,
Nor will be judg'd by Party Zeal.
Whene'er a Poet's to be try'd,
Let Pope hereafter be your Guide.
``Survey the Whole, nor seek slight Faults to find,
``Where Nature moves, and Rapture warms the Mind.
Scheme | AABB CCDDEEFF EEGGAXHH |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111 10111101 11110101 11111111 01110101 01011111 11110101 111011 01110111 11011100 011111010 110101010 101100110 010111110 11110101 11111101 1010111 11010111 0101111111 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 716 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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