Analysis of In Imitation of E. of Dorset : Artemisia
Alexander Pope 1688 (London) – 1744 (Twickenham)
Tho' Artemisia talks, by fits,
Of councils, classics, fathers, wits;
Reads Malbranche, Boyle, and Locke;
Yet in some things methinks she fails,
'Twere well if she would pare her nails,
And wear a cleaner smock.
Haughty and huge as High-Dutch bride,
Such nastiness, and so much pride
Are oddly join'd by fate:
On her large squab you find her spread,
Like a fat corpse upon a bed,
That lies and stinks in state.
She wears no colours (sign of grace)
On any part except her face;
All white and black beside:
Dauntless her look, her gesture proud,
Her voice theatrically loud,
And masculine her stride.
So have I seen, in black and white
A prating thing, a Magpye hight,
Majestically stalk;
A stately, worthless animal,
That plies the tongue, and wags the tail,
All flutter, pride, and talk.
Scheme | AABCCB DDEFFE GGDHHD IIJXXJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 11010101 11101 1011111 11111101 010101 10011111 11000111 110111 10111101 10110101 110101 1111111 11010101 110101 1010101 01010001 010001 11110101 011011 010001 01010100 11010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 773 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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