Analysis of Against the Dispraisers of Poetry
Richard Barnfield 1574 (Norbury) – 1620
Chaucer is dead; and Gower lies in grave;
The Earl of Surrey long ago is gone;
Sir Philip Sidney's soul the heavens have;
George Gascoigne him before was tombed in stone.
Yet, though their bodies lie full low in ground,
As every thing must die that erst was born,
Their living fame no fortune can confound,
Nor ever shall their labors be forlorn.
And you, that discommend sweet poetry,
(So that the subject of the same be good)
Here may you see your fond simplicity,
Sith kings have favored it, of royal blood.
The King of Scots (now living) is a poet,
As his Lepanto and his Furies show it.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010101 0111010111 110110101 111011101 1111011101 11001111111 1101110101 1101110101 01111100 1100110111 1111110100 1111011101 01111101010 11101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 460 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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