Analysis of To The Right Honourable The Earl Of Thomond, At Bath

Mary Barber 1685 – 1755



Obrian, were in Story told,
Thy Ancestors wore Crowns of old:
In fair Hibernia's Isle they reign'd;
A Country, by their Sons disdain'd!
Too apt to charge their Native Isle
With ev'ry Vice of Speech and Style:
Yet thy Eliza, great and good,
Of Seymour's, and of Piercy's Blood,
(Whose Ancestors, to Fame well known,
When injur'd, shook the British Throne
Will not thy native Isle deride,
Tho' to an higher Crown ally'd.
And shall Hibernia fear Disgrace,
From Thomond, of Milesian Race?
It ill becomes thee thus to treat
Thy Family's Imperial Seat.

Great Boiroimke! look down and see
This Change in thy Posterity;
Who quit all Titles to thy Throne,
But Hospitality alone.


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Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Metre 01000101 1101111 01100111 01011101 11111101 1111101 11010101 1100111 1101111 11010101 11110101 1111011 01100101 11111 11011111 110001001 111101 11010100 11110111 1010001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 658
Words 117
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 16, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 260
Words per stanza (avg) 58
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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