Analysis of Herodias' Daughter Presenting To Her Mother St. John's Head In A Charger, Also Painted By Her Self
Anne Killigrew 1660 (London) – 1685 (London)
Behold, dear Mother, who was late our Fear,
Disarm'd and Harmless, I present you here;
The Tongue ty'd up, that made all Jury quake,
And which so often did our Greatness shake;
No Terror sits upon his Awful Brow,
Where Fierceness reign'd, there Calmness triumphs now;
As Lovers use, he gazes on my Face,
With Eyes that languish, as they sued for Grace;
Wholly subdu'd by my Victorious Charms,
See how his Head reposes in my Arms.
Come, joyn then with me in my just Transport,
Who thus have brought the Hermite to the Court.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111101 0101011011 0111111101 01110110101 1101011101 111110101 1101110111 1111011111 10011101001 11111011 1111101101 111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 524 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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