Analysis of Moral Song
Anne Kingsmill Finch 1661 – 1720 (Westminster)
Would we attain the happiest State,
That is design'd us here;
No Joy a Rapture must create,
No Grief beget Despair.
No Injury fierce Anger raise,
No Honour tempt to Pride;
No vain Desires of empty Praise
Must in the Soul abide.
No Charms of Youth, or Beauty move
The constant, settl'd Breast:
Who leaves a Passage free to Love,
Shall let in, all the rest.
In such a Heart soft Peace will live,
Where none of these abound;
The greatest Blessing, Heav'n do's give,
Or can on Earth be found.
Scheme | ABACDEDEFGHGIJKJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101001 110111 11010101 110101 11001101 11111 110101101 100101 11111101 010101 11010111 110101 01011111 111101 01010111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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