Analysis of Cynicus To W. Shakespeare
James Kenneth Stephen 1859 (London) – 1892
You wrote a line too much, my sage,
Of seers the first, and first of sayers;
For only half the world's a stage,
And only all the women players.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011111 110101110 11010101 010101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 140 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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