Analysis of To The Right Honourable John Earl Of Orrery, At Bath, After The Death Of The Late Earl.
Mary Barber 1685 – 1755
'Tis said, for ev'ry common Grief
The Muses can afford Relief:
And, surely, on that heav'nly Train
A Boyle can never call in vain.
Then strait invoke the sacred Nine,
Nor impious slight their Gifts divine;
Dispel those Clouds, which damp your Fire;
Shew, Bath, like
The Earl's Answer,
written extempore.
Nor Bath, nor Tunbridge, can my Lays inspire;
Nor radiant Beauty make me strike the Lyre:
Far from the busy Croud I sit, forlorn;
And sigh in secret, and in Silence mourn:
Nor can my Anguish ever find an End;
I weep a Father, and have lost a Friend.
Reply to the foregoing Verses.
Why did I hope to make your Anguish less?
I try'd to cure, and I have caught, Distress.
Suppress your Sighs, dry up your Tears; 'tis Time:
Excess of Virtue may become a Crime.
You lost, you say, a Friend, and Father too;
But know, Mankind would lose a Friend in you.
Scheme | AABBCCDX DDEEFFGG XHHIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 01010101 0101111 01110101 11010101 101011101 011111110 111 0110 101 111111101 11001011101 1101011101 0101000101 1111010111 1101001101 011001010 1111111101 1111011101 0111111111 111010101 1111010101 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 838 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 7 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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