Analysis of To Mrs. S---. Written In My Sickness.



Dear Psyche, come, with chearful Face,
And bless this desolated Place.
O come! my sickly Couch attend,
And ease the Anguish of your Friend.
Thy Soul, with ev'ry Grace supply'd,
Thy gen'rous Soul, in Friendship try'd,
With Wit, and nervous Sense delights;
And steals away the tardy Nights.
Whilst others to Diversions fly,
You watch the Sleep--forsaken Eye:
To Thee was giv'n the won'drous Pow'r,
To gild the melancholy Hour,
To sooth the long--distracted Brain,
And conquer ev'n the Tyrant Pain.


Scheme AABBBBCCDDEFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111 01111 11110101 01010111 111111 1110101 11010101 01010101 11010101 11010101 11110111 11010010 11010101 010110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 490
Words 83
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 383
Words per stanza (avg) 81
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mary Barber

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