Analysis of Written For My Son, To Mr. Barry;
Mary Barber 1685 – 1755
Since Phoebus makes your Verse divine,
Since the God glows in ev'ry Line;
Why should you think, but I, with Ease,
Might write my native, artless Lays?
My Mother told me many a Time,
That Double--dealing was a Crime:
Alas! and is it only so,
In us, whose Birth and Fortune's low?
For you, tho' nobly born, descend
To injure, yet appear a Friend;
And seem to make my Praise your Aim,
With more Success to wound my Fame.
So your Apollo's Priests, of old,
(As by his Poets we are told)
With glorious Wreaths the Victim drest;
Then plung'd the Poniard in his Breast.
Scheme | AAXX BBCCDDEE FFDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 1011011 11111111 1111011 110111001 11010101 01011101 01110101 11110101 11010101 01111111 11011111 11010111 11110111 110010101 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 554 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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