Analysis of To a Lady
Mary Barber 1685 – 1755
WELL you Sincerity display,
A virtue wond'rous rare !
Nor value, tho' the world should say,
You're rude, so you're sincere.
To be sincere, then, give me leave ;
And I will frankly own,
Since you but this one virtue have,
'Twere better you had none.
| Scheme | ABACDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010001 01011 11010111 111101 11011111 011101 11111101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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