Analysis of Written In The Beginning Of Mezeray's History Of France
Matthew Prior 1664 – 1721
Whate'er thy countrymen have done
By law and wit, by sword and gun,
In thee is faithfully recited,
And all the living world that view
Thy work, give thee the praises due
At once instructed and delighted.
Yet for the fame of all these deeds
What beggar in the invalids,
With lameness broke, with blindness smitten,
Wish'd ever decently to die,
To have been either Mezeray,
Or any Monarch he has written?
It's strange, dear Author, yet it true is,
That down from Pharamond to Louis
All covet life, yet call it pain,
And feel the ill, yet shun the cure:
Can sense this paradox endure?
Resolve me, Cambray, or Fontaine.
The man in graver tragic known
(Though his best part long since was done)
Still on the stage desires to tarry,
And he who play'd the Harlequin,
After the jest still loads the scene,
Unwilling to retire though weary.
Scheme | AABCCB XXAXDA XXEDDE XADAXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110011 11011101 011100010 01010111 11110101 110100010 11011111 11000100 11111010 11010011 111101 11011110 111101111 1111110 11011111 01011101 1111001 0111101 01010101 11111111 1101010110 01110100 10011101 010101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 816 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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