Analysis of Written At Tunbridge—Wells, To The Right Honourable The Lady Barbara North
Mary Barber 1685 – 1755
Faint--Fair, and act a Play.
In some few Hours we must repair,
To act, like Thespis, in the Fair:
And, as our Stage is of a Piece
With that transmitted down from Greece,
Some Pow'r celestial must unfold
Our Fable, too obscurely told:
And, since it helps the Poet's Art,
When Actors speak and look their Part;
Wonder not, fair One, that we sue,
The Goddess may be play'd by you.
Scheme | X AABBCCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 011101101 1111001 011011101 11010111 111010101 1010111 01110101 11010111 10111111 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 375 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 10 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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